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24. And I sought a way of acquiring strength sufficient to enjoy
Thee; but I found it not until I embraced that "Mediator between
God and man, the man Christ Jesus,"' "who is over all, God
blessed for ever," calling unto me, i and saying, "I am the way,
the truth, and the life," and mingling that food which I was unable
to receive with our flesh. For "the Word was made flesh," s that
Thy wisdom, by which Thou createdst all things, might provide milk
for our infancy. For I did not grasp my Lord Jesus, I, though
humbled, grasped not the humble One; nor did I know what lesson that
infirmity of His would teach us. For Thy Word, the Eternal
Truth, pre-eminent above the higher parts of Thy creation, raises
up those that am subject unto Itself; but in this lower world built
for Itself a humble habitation of our clay, whereby He intended to
abase from themselves such as would be subjected and bring them over
unto Himself, allaying their swelling, and fostering their love; to
the end that they might go on no further in self-confidence, but
rather should become weak, seeing before their feet the Divinity weak
by taking our "coats of skins;" s and wearied, might cast themselves
down upon It, and It rising, might lift them up.
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