Share flesh and blood; second Adam; curse on the tree

Most usefully and of necessity the mystery of the becoming-human has been accomplished: the Word shared flesh and blood, so that to the one said to die fleshly and also to have been raised we might die with him and be raised with him.

“For if we have become grown-together with the likeness of his death, we will also be of the resurrection.” You will understand these things in the same way as the first. “For since through a human comes death, through a human also comes resurrection of the dead; for as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.” Christ has been named second Adam; and just as the first Adam brought us down into corruption, so also Christ brought us back up into life — not as a bare human who died for us, lest we also remain dead in him, but as God in flesh, having suffered in it humanly, so that when he raised his own temple divinely we might be raised with him.

From Galatians. “Christ bought us out of the curse of the law, becoming a curse for us; for it is written: Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree — so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” Look here too: Christ’s death has become saving for the world. For he became a curse for us, enduring a cross and hanging on a tree, so that he might loose the world’s sin, “so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Christ Jesus” — that is, so that the nations might be justified through faith according to the promise given to Abraham, “so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”