Christ remained what He was, even when He became what He was not. He did not exchange His deity for His humanity. Nor did He become a human person. As a divine person, He assumed a human nature.17 The divine, second Person of the Trinity, who was eternally existing in the form of God, nullified Himself by taking the form of a slave and being born in the likeness of man. In the majesty of heaven, to look on Him would have been to look on the epitome of all beauty. But being found in appearance as
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