Q46&47 The Humiliation Of Christ

Westminster Larger Catechism

Q46: What was the estate of Christ’s humiliation?

Answer: The estate of Christ‘s humiliation was that low condition, wherein He for our sakes, emptying Himself of His glory, took upon Him the form of a servant, in His conception and birth, life, death, and after His death, until His resurrection.

Q47: How did Christ humble Himself in His conception and birth?

Answer: Christ humbled Himself in His conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God, in the bosom of the Father, He was pleased in the fullness of time to become the son of man, made of a woman of low estate, and to be born of her; with divers circumstances of more than ordinary abasement.