The Millennial Dawn 113 The highest angel in heaven, far from having to stoop in order to become a servant, is but a servant and can never be aught else. But the very fact that He did humble Himself, even unto the death of the cross, is positive proof that He was no created being, no mere man, but God over all and blessed forever. (Rom. 9:5.) But even in His amazing self-abasement He did not re nounce His glorious attributes as a Divine Person: He veiled them beneath His lowly human garb, save when occa sion demanded their display. Both Omnipotence and Om niscience belonged to Him while on earth, and He often ex hibited both in the sight of men. The proof of this is abun dant and conclusive. 2. In the incarnation our Lord had but one nature , not two natures, as Christians have always held. (Series I. pp. 179, 180, 184.) We quote: “Neither was Jesus a combina tion of the two natures, human and spiritual. The blending of two natures produces neither the one nor the other, but an imperfect, hybrid thing, which is obnoxious to the Divine arrangement. When Jesus was in the flesh He was a perfect human being; previous to that He was a perfect spiritual being; and since His resurrection He is a perfect spiritual being of the highest or Divine order. . . . Thus we see that in Jesus there was no mixture of natures, but that twice He experienced a change of nature; first, from spiritual to human; afterward, from human to the highest order of spiritual nature, the Divine; and in each case the one was given up for the other.” . . . “We have no record of any being, either spiritual or human, ever having been changed from one nature to another, except the Son of God; and this was an exceptional case, for an exceptional purpose. . . . Thus we find that the Scriptures regard the spiritual and human natures as separate and distinct, and furnish no evidence that the ®ne will evolve or develop into the other” . . . Here
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