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1693·The Common Faith
Question 26 of 82
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God

In what did Christ's humiliation consist?

Answer

Christ's humiliation consisted in His being born, and that in a low condition (), made under the law (), undergoing the miseries of this life (), the wrath of God (), and the cursed death of the cross (); in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time ().

Read the 6 proof texts (KJV)
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.