God with Us

The word “Incarnate” came up in my English class recently when we were studying Greek and Latin prefixes. One student thought it meant something like incarcerate’’ something to do with a putting away. Another thought it was something evil because she had heard of a book with that word in its title, and that book was not an acceptable one. We discovered that the meaning was “em­bodied in the flesh” or “existence in bodily form.” Some of my students were surprised when it was pointed out that the...