Birth, passion, death and exaltation

Meaning

These words name the sequence of Christ's birth, suffering, death, resurrection and exaltation that the art is said to display as an image. Part III: benefits and their rank · unit 9 identifies the subject as the second person of the Godhead and connects the sequence with salvation acquired for created human beings. The passage announces the fuller interpretation of Part Four rather than supplying a separate laboratory equivalence for every event. The English's parallel nouns make the sequence conspicuous, while the historical wording moves through verbal and nominal forms. 'Exaltation' is not simply a material rising: it belongs here to Christ's saving history and the mirror-like presentation of the articles of faith.