Hence the union effected in the incarnate Person of the Son inevitably came under attack and strain. The forces of evil thrust against that union, seeking to break it, to divide the human life of the Son on earth from the life of the Father above, to divide the divine and human natures in Christ himself. However, by living the life which Jesus Christ lived in our midst, the life of complete obedience to the Father and of perfect communion with him, the life of absolute holiness in the midst of our sin and corruption, and by living it through the whole course of our human existence from birth
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