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Your Point 2 regarding Christ’s Conception – The Spirit prepared the body by which Christ was to redeem us to the Father:

Hebrews 10:5 “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me.”

Words that come to mind in attempts to describe Kuyper’s contributions in this volume are provocative, thoughtful, startlingly different, etc. One has but to read B. B. Warfield’s “Introductory Note” (Kuyper, op. cit., pp. xxv-xxxix) to appreciate the value of this work, and I would add that this note by Warfield is a profitable read in its own right. Warfield describes Kuyper’s work as “a very valuable gift,” “a comprehensive treatment,” (Warfield, I., pg. xxvi), and “admirably executed” (Warfield, op. cit., pg. xxx). Also: “The significance of Dr. Kuyper’s book is, therefore, in part due only to the fact that he has had the courage to attack and the gifts successfully to accomplish a task which few have possessed the breadth either of outlook or of powers to undertake….If we can not look upon it as breaking entirely new ground, or even say that it is the only work of its kind since Owen, we can at least say that it brings together the material belonging to this great topic with a systematizing genius that is very rare, and presents it with a penetrating appreciation of its meaning and richness of apprehension of its relations that is exceedingly illuminating.” (Warfield, op. cit., pg. xxvii) Finally: “…Dr. Kuyper’s book comes to us not as something of a novelty, but as a specially finely conceived and executed presentation of a topic on which we are all thinking.” (Warfield, op. cit., pg. xxix)