Peace be to you.

We have emphasized to a great extent the divinity of Christ, and rightly so.

But it often happens that we forget the humanity of Christ.

And it is of that that we would speak.

There are two verses in the scripture, one from Isaiah and the other from the epistle to the Hebrews,

which seemed to be contradictory.

Isaiah says that our blessed Lord was reckoned with the transgressors or sinners.

In the epistle of the Hebrews, that he was separated from sinners.

One with them, and at the same time not with them.

He was with them, reckoned with sinners.

Inasmuch as in his human nature, he took upon himself all of the penalties of sin. He was separated simply because he was

God. And also because even in his human nature, he was liked to us in all things save sin.

Now we will penetrate rather deeply into the meaning of this human nature that Christ assumed.

Remember, it had no human personality.

In a certain sense, therefore, the human nature of our blessed Lord was unlimited.

It was almost as if, for example, we had a playground in which there were no fences or walls.

Then all children could come into this playground.

Now, the human nature of Christ, simply because it was not capped,

it was not limited or confined by a human personality,

could embrace within itself all the human natures of the world.

In other words, that human nature of Christ represented to a great

extent the human nature of every single person that has ever lived. You read as genealogy

...