TylerRay
Puritan Board Graduate
John Gill on John 20:17:
Can someone please explain the emboldened portion above? How is it that servanthood is proper to Christs's mediatorial role, and not sonship?
I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God;
God was his Father, not by creation, as he is to angels, and the souls of men, and therefore is called the Father of spirits; nor by adoption, as he is to the saints; nor with respect to the incarnation of Christ, for, as man, he had no father; or with regard to his office as Mediator, for as such he was a servant, and not a Son; but he was his Father by nature, or with regard to his divine person, being begotten of him, and so his own proper Son, and he his own proper Father
Can someone please explain the emboldened portion above? How is it that servanthood is proper to Christs's mediatorial role, and not sonship?