the obedient, true human being, Jesus Christ is able to place us once again on the road from which we have strayed, so that we are restored in fellowship with God and receive incorruption and immortality. The incarnation functions as the prelude to Christ’s obedient life of recapitulation. All the same, of course, the incarnation is emphatically present as a necessary precondition for the restoration of fellowship with God. And although it does not give immortality all by itself, nonetheless, as
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