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    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,”551

    551 1 Tim. ii. 5.

    “who is over all, God blessed for ever,”552

    552 Rom. ix. 5.

    calling unto me, and saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,”553

    553 John xiv. 6.

    and mingling that food which I was unable to receive with our flesh. For “the Word was made flesh,”554

    554 John i. 14.

    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;555

    555 Christ descended that we may ascend. See iv. sec. 19, notes 1 and 3, above.

    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;”556

    556 Gen. iii. 21. Augustin frequently makes these “coats of skin” symbolize the mortality to which our first parents became subject by being deprived of the tree of life (see iv. sec. 15, note 3, above); and in his Enarr. in Ps. (ciii. 1, 8), he says they are thus symbolical inasmuch as the skin is only taken from animals when dead.

    and wearied, might cast themselves down upon It, and It rising, might lift them up.

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