# “He is conceived in the fullness of time by the Holy Spirit in Mary” by Herman Bavinck

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- Published: 2021-12-24T13:00:28-06:00
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“Promised under the Old Testament as the Messiah who is to come as a descendant 
of a woman of Abraham, Judah, and David, He is conceived in the fullness of time
by the Holy Spirit in Mary (**Matt. 1:20**) and born of her, of a woman (**Gal. 
4:4**).

He is her son (**Luke 2:7)**, the fruit of her womb (**Luke 1:42**), a descendant
of David and Israel according to the flesh (**Acts 2:30; Rom. 1:3; 9:5**), sharing
in our flesh and blood, like us in all things, sin excepted (**Heb. 2:14, 17–18;
4:15; 5:1**); a true human, the Son of Man (**Rom. 5:15; 1 Cor. 15:21; 1 Tim. 2:
5**), growing up as an infant (**Luke 2:40, 52**), experiencing hunger (**Matt. 
4:2**), thirst (**John 19:28**), weeping (**Luke 19:41; John 11:35**), being moved(**
John 12:27**), feeling grief (**Matt. 26:38**), being furious (**John 2:17**), suffering,
dying.

For Scripture it is so much an established fact that Christ came in the flesh that
it calls the denial of it anti-Christian (**1 John 2:22**). And it teaches that 
Christ assumed not only a true but also a complete human nature.”

–Herman Bavinck, [_Reformed Dogmatics: Sin and Salvation in Christ, vol. 3_](https://amzn.to/3FrIy01),
Ed. John Bolt, and Trans. John Vriend (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006), 
3: 296.

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