His human part was processed into sonship.
His human part was processed into sonship. Now, after His resurrection, no one would have any questions about His being the Son of God. Everyone would say, "This is the Son of God!" This is the reason He needed to be born in His resurrection and designated as the Son of God. In this sense, He was a child born in resurrec tion. Before the resurrection of the Lord, the whole universe had never seen such a person. But after His resurrection, He was the wonder ful child with the divine life and the human na ture, with both divinity glorified and humanity "sonized." The mother must have been very happy at the birth of such a wonderful child.
As we have seen, the mother, the woman, in verse 2 of John 16 refers to the disciples. After being born as a child in resurrection, Christ came to His believers in the evening of the day of His resurrection, and the disciples rejoiced at His presence (John 20:20). As a mother is happy when she sees her newborn child, so the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord on the day of res urrection. In John 16:16 the Lord had said to them, "A little while and you shall behold Me no longer, and again a little while and you shall see Me." The Lord would die and be buried, and the disciples would not see Him for "a little