104. (8) THE PROGRESS TO UNION WAS HIS STATE OF EXINANITION, AND THE UNION ITSELF IS HIS STATE OF GLORIFICATION.

It is known in the Church that the Lord, when in the world, passed through two states, called states of exinanition and glorification. The state of exinanition is described in many passages of the Word, especially in the Psalms of David, also in the Prophets, and particularly inIsaiah 53, where it is said,

"He hath poured out His soul unto death." verse 12.

This same state was His state of humiliation before the Father, for in it He prayed to the Father, saying that He does His will, and ascribes all that He did and said to the Father.

That He prayed to the Father, is evident from these passages: Matthew 14:23; Mark 1:35; 6:46; 14:32-39; Luke 5:16; 6:12; 22:41-44; John 17:9, 15, 20.

That He did the will of the Father: John 4:34; 5:30.

That He ascribed all that He did and said to the Father: John 8:26-28; 12:49-50; 14:10; indeed, He even cried out on the cross: "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34; and moreover, unless He had been in this state, He could not have been crucified. The state of glorification is also the state of union. He was in this state when He was transfigured before His three disciples; and also when He wrought miracles; and when He said that He and the Father are one, that the Father is in Him and He in the Father, and that all things the Father had are His; and when the union was fully completed, that He had "power over all flesh," John 17:2; and that He had "all power in heaven and in earth," Matthew 28:18; besides many other passages to the same effect.