Heidelberg Catechism.
yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is at the same time true God.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. Hebr. 7, 26.
The Lord our Righteousness. Jer. 23, 6.
1 Cor. 15, 21.
QUESTION 16.
Why must he be a true and sinless man?
ANSWER.
Because the justice of God requires, that the same human nature, which has sinned should make satisfaction for sin; but no man, being himself a sinner, could satisfy for others.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 1 Cor. 15, 21.
QUESTION 17.
Why must he be at the same time true God?
ANSWER.
That by the power of his Godhead he might bear, in his manhood, the burden of God's wrath and so obtain for and restore to us righteousness and life.
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