Section 8
of Jesus the Savior are strikingly different in essence. The conception of John the Baptist was God's miracle, accomplished with the overage human essence, merely by the divine power, without the divine essence being involved, thus bringing forth a mere man who was only filled with the Spirit of God (Luke 1:15) but lacked the nature of God. The conception of the Savior was God's incarnation (John 1:14), constituted not only by the divine power, but also of the divine essence added to the human essence, hence pro ducing the God-man of two natures—divinity and humanity. Through this, God joined Him self to humanity that He might be manifested in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16) and might be a Man- Savior (Luke 2:11).
We have emphasized strongly that the Man- Savior was conceived of the Holy Spirit with the divine essence in a human virgin with the human essence. Here we see the two sources of the Lord's two essences. It is very clear that the conception of the Lord Jesus involved two sources—the Holy Spirit and the human virgin— and two essences—the divine essence and the human essence.
The conception of the Man-Savior involved a mingling of the divine essence and the human