Chapter XVIII.—Jesus Christ, the
Mediator, is the Only Way of Safety.
24. And I sought a way of acquiring strength
sufficient to enjoy Thee; but I found it not until I embraced that
“Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus,” “who is
over all, God blessed for ever,” calling unto me, and saying, “I
am the way, the truth, and the life,” and mingling that food which I was
unable to receive with our flesh. For “the Word was made
flesh,” that Thy
wisdom, by which Thou createdst all things, might provide milk for
our infancy. For I did not grasp my Lord Jesus,—I, though
humbled, grasped not the humble One; nor did I know what lesson that
infirmity of His would teach us. For Thy Word, the Eternal Truth, pre-eminent above the higher parts of Thy creation, raises up those that are subject unto Itself; but in this lower world built for Itself a humble habitation of our clay, whereby He intended to abase from themselves such as would be subjected and bring them over unto Himself, allaying their swelling, and fostering their love; to the end that they might go on no further in self-confidence, but rather should become weak, seeing before their feet the Divinity weak by taking our “coats of skins;” and wearied, might cast themselves down upon It, and It rising, might lift them up.
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