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92 the Logos and the man, and this relation is on both sides one of free will, a relation of love , a relation of giving on the one side and of taking on the other , a relation that becomes so close, that the one presents himself as the other, and that the form of God shows itself in the form of a servant and the form of a servant is teaching, acting, etc. in the form of God.

We must observe, it is true, that the man is God not by nature, but only because God reveals Himself in him, and that the Logos is not flesh by nature, but only manifests himself in the flesh. But also my late colleague Dr r (†Sept. 7th, 1912), who was regarded as orthodox, held it to be a vain attempt to combine two independent beings or two persons in an individual life. He himself thought that the union of the Godhead and manhood will become intelligible if understood as a reciprocity of two personal actions,