Q. 27. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?

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Westminster Shorter Catechism

A. Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, 1 made under the law, 2 undergoing the miseries of this life, 3 the wrath of God, 4 and the cursed death of the cross; 5 in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. 6

  1. Luke 2:7. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. 2 Corinthians 8:9. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. Galatians 4:4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. [↩]
  2. Galatians 4:4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. [↩]
  3. Isaiah 53:3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Luke 9:58. And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. John 4:6. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. John 11:35. Jesus wept. Hebrews 2:18. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. [↩]
  4. Psalm 22:1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? Matthew 27:46. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Isaiah 53:10. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 1 John 2:2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. [↩]
  5. Galatians 3:13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: Philippians 2:8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [↩]
  6. Matthew 12:40. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. [↩]
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