Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to … - Gregory of Nazianzus

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?. . . If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?

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