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David, says S. Jerome,
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However fanciful and over-subtle the early Christian commentators may seem to us in their working out of this idea, they had grasped a profound truth. When we once recognise that Christ, knowing Who He was and why He came into the world (_cf._ John xiii. 1), must in the Jewish services or in private prayers have recited the Psalms with a perfect intention, and found in them the true expression of Himself, with regard both to the eternal Father and to His brethren, we are compelled to admit the possibility of each verse of the Psalms having some bearing on the Incarnation. It is a conclusion which might at first sight seem extravagant; but it forces itself upon us as we realise the true humanity of the Saviour. He is
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; He took of the substance of His Virgin-mother the fulness of human nature; He has a human body, a human soul, a human spirit; He is
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the great Head of our race, Who, in the striking phrase of S. Irenaeus, has
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(_recapitulavit_) all humanity and all the long history of man.
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For verily, not of angels doth He take hold, but He taketh hold of the {53} seed of Abraham