that the incarnation was the divine Son’s free act on our behalf is indicated by the tenses of the two verbs “share” and “partook.” The first, a perfect in the Greek,103 describes the constant human situation: all men and women, of every generation, have this in common that their nature is “flesh and blood”; whereas the second, an aorist in the Greek,104 points to the historical event, unique in itself, of the incarnation when the Son of God assumed this same human nature and thus himself became