Q47: How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?
A47: Christ humbled himself in his conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God, in the bosom of the Father, he was pleased in the fulness of time to become the son of man, made of a woman of low estate, and to be born of her; with divers circumstances of more than ordinary abasement.[1]
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- (Joh 1:14) And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- (Joh 1:18) No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
- (Gal 4:4) But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
- (Luk 2:7) And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
