1. Anselm,Cur Deus Homo2.16.
2. The point is nicely summed up by Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Christology(London: Collins, 1978), p. 107:The doctrine of the sinlessness of Jesus is not onelocus. . . among others. It is a central point at which all that is said is decided. The question is: Has Jesus as the humiliated God-Man entered fully into human sin? Was he man with sin as we are? If not, has he then really become man? If not, can he then really help? And if he has, how can he help us out of our trouble, while he is set in the same trouble?
3. Gregory of Nazianzus,Ep.101.7.
4. Altered in Mt. 19:17: ‘Why do you ask me about the good?’
5. Karl Barth,The Epistle to the Romans, 6th edn (London: Oxford University Press, 1933), p. 279; cf. alsoChurch Dogmatics(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956-75) (hereafterCD), I/2, p. 156: ‘[I]f we apply the canons usually applied to the construction of a moral ideal, we may easily fall into certain difficulties not easy of solution, whether with the Jesus of the Synoptics or with the Jesus of John's Gospel.’