Nature of Christ Blog 10

My father is greater than I (2)

Blog 10

St. Basil the Great stated,"His Father to be greater than Himself, when He was seen in glory inferior to the angels, and in form to men? For “Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,” (Ps 8:5) and again “Who was made a little lower than the angels,” (Heb 2:9) and “we saw Him and He had neither form nor comeliness, his form was deficient beyond all men.” (Isaiah 53:2-3)."
(Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers V8 P.274)

St. Ambrose commented, "He called the Father greater than Himself, when in the person of a man He called Himself a worm, and not a man, saying: “But I am a worm, and no man;” (Ps 22:6) and again: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter (Isa.53:7). how was He “made lower,” (Heb 2:9) except that, “being in the form of God, He thought it not a prey that He should be equal with God, but emptied Himself;” (Phil 2:7) not, indeed, parting with what He was, but taking up what He was not, for “He took the form of a servant.”
(Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers V10 P.521)