"In relating to us, the triune God creates the means by which he condescends to us. He takes on human language, meaning, experience, and even flesh (supremely in Christ) in order to faithfully maintain his covenant with us; and he does all of this while remaining fully and completely God" (K. Scott Oliphint, Covenantal Apologetics: Principles and Practice in Defense of Our Faith, 96).
Regarding the condescension of God, John Calvin drew a correlation between how a nurse who speaks baby-talk with an infant and how God lisps in speaking to us - God condescends "far beneath his loftiness" in order to accommodate himself to us.
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