The Beauty of the Son

When the Son of God went down to earth, he could have been the most beautiful man, according to the world's beauty canons. He did not know sin, there was no deception in his mouth, therefore, the disfiguration that sin brings, the advances of the death that entails, were not in him.

But was it beautiful? Was it beautiful as Joseph, his father's beloved son, with his "robe of different colors"? Or like Saul, that "Shoulders above, he exceeded anyone"? Or as David, "blond, beautiful eyes, and good opinion"? Or as Solomon, whose intelligence gave a special attraction to his person? Or as Absalom, unparalleled among the children of David, "praised for his beauty", that "from the plant of his foot to his crown had no defect"?

It could be like any of them, or even more, like the sum of them, but it was not. It was, rather, "as (a) root of dry land". "There was no beauty or majesty in him; His appearance was not attractive and nothing in his appearance made it desirable" (Is. 53:2). The eternal verb that was hidden in him should not reveal himself with a beauty for the eyes, or with an external pomp. Could he have accepted - who liked to hide from mobs and shy away his vain applause - to cause among the people a dazzling for the beauty of his features, or by his bearing?

Unthinkable! Even more. In the moments of greatest pain, his appearance suffered even more deterioration. The prophet, seeing it in advance, said: "He had disfigured his countenance; Nothing human appeared!" (Is. 52:14). He who had stripped his glory as God seemed less than a man!

Could he have had the beautiful face of an angel who carried everyone's sin on himself? Could I have worn a broad and carefree smile who knew the greatest depths of our depravity, and I had commission to get rid of them, assuming them, and purging them on the cross? Oh, its beauty must be measured by other canons and not by those to which human vanity is accustomed!

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