Many justified by the obedient Only-begotten made human; servant yet God

So when the holy writing says that many have been justified through one person’s obedience, we do not say that a bare human, one of those like us, was taken for this, but rather that the Only-begotten has become human and has become obedient to the Father for us. “He did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,” as it is written.

“For I say that Christ has become a servant of circumcision for God’s truth, to confirm the promises of the fathers, and that the nations might glorify God for mercy.” The divine Paul says the promises given to the fathers belong to the Jews. And the blessed prophets also cried out beforehand about Christ, that he himself will be the expectation of the nations. So our Lord Jesus the Christ, agreeing with the Father’s nods, became a servant to the circumcision — that is, to the Jews — to confirm what was promised in the fathers; for it had been said that “the righteous will live from faith”; but for those from the nations a spiritual and life-giving blessing, so that they too, being shown mercy through faith, might glorify God. Yet even if he became a servant in a human way, still he is proclaimed as God both to those from circumcision and also to those from the nations. For they have been called into life not as to one bare human among us, but as to God, having believed in Christ; and confessing that the Word from God exists not outside flesh — that is, humanity — they worship him as having been enfleshed and become human. For the word of faith that we proclaim the blessed Paul makes clear saying: “that if you confess with your mouth…