216. And further, what a man has from his father is the very love, or the very affection, because the love is man's very life, and the body lives from that; and thus it is plain that man's very life is from the father, and nothing of life from the mother. Since therefore the very life was Divine, or was the Divine love, and the body is simply obedience, it thence clearly follows that the Lord as Man is God. (Here quote, first and last, what is written in Luke 1:34, 35.)