Section 7
is the whole group of disciples. Who is the child, the son? The child is Christ. What is the birth? It is resurrection.
At the time the Lord spoke this to the disci ples, He was one with them, like a child con ceived within its mother, waiting to be delivered in birth that He might be a newborn child. In this sense, His disciples were the delivering woman in travail. In those three days, the disciples did suffer the travail of the birth of Christ in res urrection to be born as the Son of God. After the Lord's resurrection, this "woman" had a new born child and she rejoiced (20:20).
The man born into the world is the Son (John 16:21). The Son was to be born in resurrection (Acts 13:33) as the Son of God (Heb. 1:5; Rom. 1:4). It was by resurrection that the Lord was born as the Son of God. The Lord was born as the Son of Man in the manger, but He was born as the Son of God in resurrection. Acts 13:33 proves this: "God…hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee." On what day was Christ begotten as the Son of God? On the day of resurrection. His resurrection was a birth.
But was not the Lord the Son of God before His resurrection? Yes. Why then did He have to