He is called “the Son of God,” “the Son of Humankind,” and “the Son
of Mary.” “The Son of God” means Jehovah God in his human manifesta-
tion. “The Son of Humankind” means the Lord in his role as the Word.
“The Son of Mary” properly means the human manifestation he took
on. Just below we will show that “the Son of God” and “the Son of
Humankind” have the meanings just mentioned. As for “the Son of Mary”
meaning just the human manifestation, this is obvious from human repro-
duction. The soul comes from the father, the body from the mother. The
soul is in the father’s semen; it is clothed with a body in the mother. To
put it another way, everything we have that is spiritual comes from our
father; everything physical comes from our mother.
In the Lord’s case, the divine nature he had came from Jehovah his
Father; the human nature he had came from his mother. These two
natures united together are “the Son of God.” The truth of this is clearly
substantiated by the Lord’s birth, as recorded in Luke: “The angel
Gabriel said to Mary, ‘The Holy Spirit will descend upon you and the
power of the Highest will cover you; therefore the Holy One that is born
from you will be called the Son of God’” (Luke 1 : 35 ).
Another reason why the Lord described himself as “sent” by the
Father is that “someone who has been sent” has a similar meaning to “an
angel.” The word “angel” in the original language means “one who has
been sent.” [The Lord] is said to be [an angel] in Isaiah, “The Angel of the
Faces of Jehovahhas freed them. Because of his love and his mercy he
redeemed them” (Isaiah 63 : 9 ); and in Malachi, “Suddenly the Lordwill
come to his temple—the One you seek, the Angel of the Covenant,whom
you desire” (Malachi 3 : 1 ); besides other passages.
Where we discuss the divine Trinity below in chapter 3 of this work
[§§ 163 – 188 ] it will become clear that the divine Trinity—God the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit—exists within the Lord; the Father in him
is the divinity he draws on, the Son is his divine human manifestation,
and the Holy Spirit is the divine power that radiates [from him].
Since the angel Gabriel said to Mary, “The Holy Onethat will be 93
born from you will be called the Son of God,” I will now quote passages
from the Word to show that the Lord in his human manifestation is
called “the Holy One of Israel”:
I was seeing in visions, behold a Wakeful and Holy Onecoming down
from heaven. (Daniel 4 : 13 , 23 )
God will come from Teman, and the Holy Onefrom Mount Paran.
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