But viewed as a medium of the most costly blessings to the church of God, how precious a mystery does the incarnation of our Lord appear! The union of the divine and the human in Immanuel, is the re-union of God through the second Adam with fallen man. The first Adam severed us from the Divine nature; the second Adam re-unites us. The incarnation is the grand link between these two extremes of being. It forms the verdant spot, the oasis in the desert, of a ruined universe, on which God and the sinner can meet together. Here are blended, in marvellous union, the gloomy clouds of human woe, and the bright beams of divine glory: God and man united!
Octavius Winslow — Glimpses of the Truth as It Is in Jesus (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1856), p. 79
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