Do not be downcast, my friend, because you have no man. You have God standing beside you, who is in one respect man, in another God, for we must profess both truths. To acknowledge his humanity without acknowledging his divinity is useless, or rather brings a curse, for “Cursed is he who places his hope in a man” (Jeremiah 17:5). So if we place our hope even in Jesus as a man without involving his divinity in our hope, we incur a curse. But as it is, we acknowledge him to be both God and human, and