##General introduction
His Holiness Pope Shenouda speaks about interpreting the verses attributed to the humanity of the Lord Christ and how they must be understood without being interpreted at the expense of His divinity.

##The humanity (Nasoot) and the divinity (Lahoot) together
He explains that the attributes of hunger, thirst, sleep, fatigue, sorrow and prayers reported about Christ belong to His human nature (nasoot) and are not against His divinity, because Christ took a full human nature without sin, and the Godhead did not depart from the humanity for a moment.

##On the phrase “My Father is greater than I”
He interprets the saying “My Father is greater than I” (John 14:28) as speaking about a state — the state of kenosis and humility which the Son took when He emptied Himself — not about a deficiency in essence. The Father and the Son are equal in essence but the Father’s state differs from the state from which glory was veiled.

##Mutual glorification and the glory on the cross
He clarifies that there is mutual glorification between the Father and the Son (John 17 and others), and that Christ’s glory was realized on the cross because in it God’s justice and love and the redemption of humanity were united; the glory manifested on earth is the revelation of God’s glory to people and not an accretion to God’s essence.

##Spiritual conclusion
The call is not to take verses about the humanity apart from the verses about the divinity or vice versa, but to have a balanced understanding that reveals God’s love in the self-emptying and redemption and to connect that with practical faith and a life that returns glory to God.

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