the word became flesh

Peter Leithart is always a stimulating writer and his latest offering, Word Made Martyr, is no less so. In addition to a cleverly instructive use of grammatical imagery to speak of Jesus' enfleshing ( "The incarnation is the human declension of the divine Word: By assuming flesh, the Word enters into a “genitive” relation with the human condition.") he also makes the following observations that evoke worshipping gratitude:

The Word becomes flesh to transform it from within, to transfigure flesh through the cross and resurrection. In death, the Word is sown in weakness, perishability, mortality, shame, but in his death to flesh God begins to work reconciliation. He is raised with power, with immortality and imperishability, with eternal glory undiminished and undiminishable, no longer flesh but wholly infused with the Spirit.