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"The conception of Jesus by the Spirit underlines both his identification with our frailty (he assumes our nature at its smallest and weakest) and his essential distinctiveness, not in relation to the reality of his humanity but in relation to his liability to guilt. He is ‘the last Adam’, the ‘man from heaven’ (I Cor. 15:45, 47-49). The work of the Spirit preserves both the reality of his union with us in genuine human nature, and his freedom from the guilt and curse of Adam’s fall (Rom. 5:12-21). Since his person is not of Adamic stock, he does not share in the guilt and condemnation of Adam (Rom. 5:12-14). Since he assumed human nature through the Spirit who sanctified this union from the moment of his conception, he was one of us and was capable of bearing others’ guilt as one who was not personally liable for it. Were his origin ‘from the earth’, he would share in the guilt and condemnation of ‘the earthly man’ (1 Cor. 15:48)."
Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit
