Born under the law, our Blessed Lord not only in His most holy life fulfilled all the commandments of the law, but in His death He satisfied its conditions by bearing its penalty, and redeeming us from its curse; born of a woman, He became the Head and representative of the human race, that in Him we might become sons of God. Possibly the wider rendering -under law" may be correct, in which case the redemption includes expressly what it does by implication all mankind.

the adoption of sons Men become sons of God by adoption; Christ is the Son of God by eternal generation.

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