1 Nephi 11:26

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1 Nephi 11:26

26 And the angel said unto me again: Look and behold the condescension of God!

QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

How did the Son condescend?

Jesus Christ condescended below all things in several notable ways:

In birth:
The Saviour…descended below all things….There never was a child born on this earth with any less capacity than dwelt in the child that was born in a manger of his mother Mary….There never was a child that descended lower in capacity, or that knew less (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 7:286).

In baptism:
The place of Jesus’ baptism was at Bethabara, near the place where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea. When a person stands in these waters he is standing at the lowest point on earth, about 1,300 feet below sea level. Therefore, at his baptism, when Jesus was lowered in the waters of Jordan, he physically descended below all living things on the earth.

In life:
As a God, He descended below all things, and made Himself subject to man in man’s fallen condition; as a man, He grappled with all the circumstances incident to His sufferings in the world (John Taylor, Mediation and Atonement, 151).

In the Atonement:
The Almighty must descend below all things….
…To suffer both body and spirit, bleeding from every pore, as he takes upon himself the sins of all men (Bruce R. McConkie, Millennial Messiah, 16).

In death:
[Jesus] submitted to all the trials of mortality, suffering "temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death" (Mosiah 3:5-8), finally being put to death in a most ignominious manner (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 155). See also Isaiah 53:12.
Brian D. Garner, Search These Things Diligently, p. 18-19