What does it mean that the Savior subjected the flesh to the will of the Father?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The will of the Son was swallowed up in the will of the Father. That is, the flesh became subject to the Spirit, the mortal subject to the immortal. ‘I seek not mine own will,’ Jesus explained, ‘but the will of the Father which hath sent me’ (John 5:30). Further, ‘I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me’ (John 6:38). … Jesus did what Elohim would have him to do: he carried out to the full extent the terms and conditions of the plan of the Father” (McConkie and Millet, Doctrinal Commentary, 2:229–30).

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