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Q26. Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?

Christ's humiliation consisted in His being born into lowly circumstances (Luke 2:7), placed under the law, subjected to the sufferings of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross, then buried and held under the power of death for a time.

Scripture Proofs — King James Version

1

Galatians 4:4

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

2

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

3

Matthew 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

4

Philippians 2:8

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

5

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.