Scripture Query and Answer: Comparison of Work Between the Persons of the Trinity

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Q. Is this statement in accordance with God's Word?
“We must not conclude that more has been done by the second person of the Trinity than by the first or third. Can any one say that it was more for Jesus to say, ‘I will suffer for them,' than for God to give Him to the world, or than for the holy Ghost who condescends to dwell on earth so full of sin?” S. A.
A. I do not believe that it is in accordance with the letter or the spirit of Scripture not to give the chief place to the Son as to work done, and, above all, suffering for God and man. It is to make light, unintentionally, of the great fact of the Incarnation, and the still greater one of Atonement. Scripture never speaks thus, whatever place it may claim for the Father's love and counsels, and the Spirit's active operation in man and the Church of God. The relation of all three is admirably set forth in Heb. 10, as elsewhere also.