First of all, _the Bible teaches us that Jesus Christ had a human
parentage_. We read in Luke 2:7, +"And she+ (i.e., Mary)
+brought forth her first born Son; and she wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them
in the inn."+ Here we are told that our Lord Jesus Christ, though
supernaturally conceived, _was Mary's Son_. Mary was as truly His
mother as God was His Father. He had a human parentage as truly as He
had a divine parentage. In the first chapter of this same Gospel of
Luke, in the 35th verse, we read, +"And the angel answered and said
unto her+ (i.e., Mary), +the Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and
the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the
holy thing, which is begotten shall be called the Son of God."+ He
was called the Son of God because He was begotten directly by the power
of the Holy Spirit; but the Holy Spirit came upon Mary and she became
the mother of this One who was to be called the "Son of God." Not only
was He descended from Mary and in that way of human parentage, we are
clearly told also in Rom. 1:3 that God's Son +"Was born of the seed
of David according to the flesh."+ And in Acts 2:30 we are told that
He was +"The fruit of his+ (i.e., David's) +loins, according
to the flesh."+ And in Hebrews 7:14, we are told that +"Our Lord
sprang out of Judah."+ While we are told in Gal. 4:4 that +"When
the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son,"+ we are also
told with equal plainness in the same verse that this Son of God was
"_Born of a woman_." The human parentage of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ was just as real and just as essential a part of His personality
as His divine parentage.