It taught them that the great Deliverer promised, was to be, not an angel, not any being of another race, but their brother; "the seed of the woman." And such truly was he. For "Both he that sanctified, and they who are sanctified, are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." And since "the children" of men, "are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise, took part of the same." "He took not on him the nature of angel;" but "the seed of Abraham," because "in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and
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Howell draws from Genesis 3:15 and later biblical texts that the Messiah must be fully man and born of a virgin because Adam brought the covenant curse the Messiah must be man to remedy Adam’s covenant curse.
