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CHRIST, THE ORIGIN AND SOURCE OF EVERY MORAL QUALITY ACCORDING TO GOD

I cannot see that there is anything wrong in the page of the paper which you refer to, when the writer expressly states: ‘As Man He entered on the path where He learned obedience by the things He suffered.’ I think it is essential and of all importance to maintain that our blessed Lord was in Himself the origin and source of every moral quality.

^[p. 72] He never learned anything from man. From the moment of His birth to the close (His death) He introduced and maintained an order entirely His own. As a Man He had to learn obedience by the things which He suffered; but He came to do the will of God; He could have no will but God’s. I dislike this kind of discussion, but there is a side of it which is of all-importance, namely, that He was cast upon God from the womb! He was unique, or, as J.N.D. said, sui generis of His own order. He took part of flesh and blood, the life under judgment must go in judgment. He bore the judgment, He dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over Him. “Henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more” (2 Corinthians 5: 16). There was an entirely new man in the mind of God, and He is that new Man, He is not the perfection of the first man, He is “out of heaven”, and no one else can ascend to heaven. This surely is nothing new, as men speak.

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