Section 7
was in the likeness of the flesh of sin. This indi cates that He was born with all the human vir tues created by God, but with Him there was only the likeness of the flesh of sin.
As those who are fallen, we cannot realize how sweet and how pleasant was the man cre ated by God. Imagine how sweet and pleasant Adam and Eve were before the fall. They had all the human virtues created by God. But due to the fall, these virtues were spoiled.
When the Lord Jesus was born of a human virgin with the human essence, He possessed the human virtues. However, the human essence of the Lord Jesus did not include man's fallen na ture. His human essence was that created by God. He had the appearance of fallen mankind, the likeness of the flesh of sin, but His human essence, as that created by God, was pure, sweet, and pleasant.
The makeup of the Man-Savior's being, His constitution, is a composition of the divine attri butes and the human virtues. How marvelous that there could be One in this universe with such a composition! In the Man-Savior, man and God, God and man, are mingled to form a com position full of the divine attributes and the human virtues.