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He has promised to men that they will be like God; to

mortals he has promised immortality; to sinners,
righteousness; to the lowly, glory.

Indeed, brethren, because what God promised seemed
incredible to men – that from mortality, decay, weakness,
lowliness, dust and ashes they should become equals of the

angels of God – he did not only sign a contract with them to
convince them. He sent, not just any prince, not just any angel

or archangel, but his only Son. The road by which he was to
lead us to the end he had promised us – through his Son he

would show us that road.

Even so, it was not enough for God to send his Son to point

out the way he made his Son the way itself, so that we can go
on our journey guided by him as he walks along his own way.

So the only Son of God was to come to men, to take on
humanity, and thus to die, to ascend to heaven and sit at the

right hand of the father, and so to fulfil what he had promised
among the nations. After that promise to the nations had been

fulfilled, he would fulfil his other promise, to come, to demand
the return of what he had given, to separate the vessels of

anger from the vessels of mercy, to give the wicked what he
had threatened and the righteous what he had promised.

All this had to be prophesied and foretold. It had to have its
coming announced. It could not come suddenly and

unexpectedly, causing terror and alarm: people had to be
awaiting it with faith.

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