Jesus hearing this, saith to them: They that are well have no need of a physician, but they that are sick. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.
Then He manifested Himself to be the Son of God. For if He had not come in the flesh, how could men have been saved by beholding Him?1485
1485 The Cod. Sin. reads, “neither would men have been saved by seeing Him.”
Since looking upon the sun which is to cease to exist, and is the work of His hands, their eyes are not able to bear his rays. The Son of God therefore came in the flesh with this view, that He might bring to a head the sum of their sins who had persecuted His prophets1486
