Deeper Understanding of the Life of Christ

 Monsignor Ronald Knox 

The Incarnation, for Saint Paul, did not mean primarily that God had become a man; it meant primarily that God had become Man, had infected the human race, as it were, with his divinity. "The Life of Christ" is a phrase which suggests to us, doesn't it, a book on a shelf, by a priest or Archbishop or somebody like that. For Saint Paul the phrase had no such meaning, or anyway, that was not the meaning which immediately lept to the mind. The Life of Christ was to him an energy that radiated all through him, was the very breath he drew in his lungs.

The Effect of Christ on Paul