Is there any creature in the world so indebted to loving care as a human babe? But Christ even then was the true God just as much as when He raised Lazarus or any other from the dead. And when He died He was just the same, though on the opposite side of circumstances. He could not cease to be true God; this was not touched, nor at all affected by His dying. Even in a man the soul and the spirit are not affected by death; it is but severing the link between the body and the inner man.
So for the Lord Jesus: He was always the Son. Jesus Christ no doubt was His name after He became man; but He is over all, God blessed forever, Amen, just as truly as the Father and the Holy Spirit, who never became incarnate. [23]