[520] See some remarks on this tendency in Liddon, Bampton Lectures, viii; and an Art. in the Church Quart. Rev., July, 1883, on 'Our Lord's Human Example.' For what follows, cp. Martensen, Ethics (General), pp. 242, 256.
[521] Dean Church, Serm. on Christ's Example [Gifts of Civilization, Serm. III].
[522] R. H. Hutton, Essay on the Incarnation and Principles of Evidence. Cp. the remarkable definition of Lactantius, Div. Inst. iii. 9, 'Pietas nihil aliud est quam Dei parentis agnitio.' Ib. 10, 'Efficitur ut is agnoscat Deum, qui unde ortus sit, quasi recordetur.'
[523] See Trench, Syn. of the N.T. § 42 (on ταπεινοφροσ). 'In His Human Nature [Christ] must be the pattern of all humility, of all creaturely dependence.... He evermore, as Man, took the place which beseemed the creature in the presence of its Creator.'
[524] S. John xvi. 32.
[525] Martensen, Ethics (General), p. 255. Cp. Job v. 23.
[526] Christ's earthly life and work are described summarily as ὑπακόη, Rom. v. 19. Cp. Phil. ii. 8.
[527] Aug. de Praed. Sanct. xxx. 'An ... in Illo non libera voluntas erat, ac non tanto magis erat, quanto magis peccare non poterat?' Quoted by Liddon, Bampt. Lect. [ed. 11], note c.
[528] Aug. de mor. Eccl. xxiii. 'Fit ergo per caritatem ut conformemur Deo.'
[529] Dorner, pp. 336, 388. Cp. Ecce Homo, p. 136.