Answer: Christ humbled himself in his conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God, in the bosom of the Father, he was pleased in the fulness of time to become the son of man, made of a woman of low estate, and to be born of her; with divers circumstances of more than ordinary abasement.₁

1. John 1:14; John 1:18; Galatians 4:4; Luke 2:7

For further study see:

1. WSC Q21: Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
2. WSC Q22: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
3. WSC Q23: What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
4. WSC Q24: How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
5. WSC Q25: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
6. WSC Q26: How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
7. WSC Q27: Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
8. WSC Q28: Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?