Unless Christ, by being made in the
likeness of sinful flesh, had taken on himself the nature of our first parents,
unless he had stooped to be one in substance with his mother while sharing the
Father’s substance and, being alone free from sin, united our nature to his,
the whole human race would still be held captive under the dominion of Satan. The
Conqueror’s victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had been fought
outside our human condition. But through this wonderful blending, the mystery
of new birth shone upon us, so that through the same Spirit by whom Christ was
conceived and brought forth, we too might be born again in a spiritual birth.
-- Pope St. Leo the Great
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