At the end of page 60 through the first paragraph on page 61 Boso makes the point that it was the human race that came from Adam who brought sin into this world so it makes sense that Jesus also had to be a part of the human race to pay the punishment that we owed. But at the top of 61 he brings up parts that I'd never thought of before - "When the sin which was the cause of our condemnation had it's beginnings with a woman, it was fitting for the Author of our justice and savior to be born of a woman. Since the devil, when he tempted man, conquered him by the tasting of a tree, it was fitting for him to be conquered by man's bearing of suffering on a tree." I had never thought of the connections or the intricacies of whom Jesus was born of or the fact that sin was brought into this world with a tree and sin was paid for on a tree. At the end of that first paragraph Boso points out "a good many other things, when we consider them carefully, show the inexpressible beauty of our redemption thus accomplished." It makes me wonder how many other details of Jesus life, death, and resurrection I just gloss over without realizing and giving credit to the fact that not a single detail of it was left to chance, rather, every single minuscule detail was designed and planned just perfectly according to the Lord's will. This blows my mind. How have I known the story of the Gospel for as long as I can remember, how have I read it hundreds and hundreds of times and never noticed? I'm baffled at what I don't know but mostly excited for all that I have to learn.
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