2:13
The two quotes here come from Is 8:17 and 8:18, where Isaiah declares that he will put his trust in God, and the outcome is the children that God has given to him. So Jesus put His trust in the Father, enduring all the pain of the cross. The writer is trying to get his readers to look at things through God’s eyes. If we seek to understand salvation through human eyes we will not get very far. It is only God’s approach that makes sense of things.
2:14
Jesus came as a representative human being, as a “pioneer” of the new man (one not tainted by sin). Since “the children share in flesh and blood”, Jesus also came as flesh and blood. He shared in all of our humanity. He did this in order “to destroy the one who has the power of death, that is the devil”. The devil thought he had got one over God by ensnaring humanity in sin and all that that entails, especially death. Jesus came as the true man, the second Adam, the man who loved and obeyed God perfectly, and had no sin. So He defeated the devil, and the gospel is about making us like Jesus. Now the devil was only allowed to have the power of death because we sinned against God.
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