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It is to be observed that there are two appropriations: one that is
natural and essential, and one that is personal and relative. The
natural and essential one is that by which our Lord in His love for
man took on Himself our nature and all our natural attributes,
becoming in nature and truth man, and making trial of that which is
natural: but the personal and relative appropriation is when any one
assumes the person of another relatively, for instance, out of pity or
love, and in his place utters words concerning him that have no
connection with himself. And it was in this way that our Lord
appropriated both our curse and our desertion, and such other things as
are not natural: not that He Himself was or became such, but that
He took upon Himself our personality and ranked Himself as one of
us. Such is the meaning in which this phrase is to be taken: Being
made a curse for our sakes.
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