The word "nation"means just gathering of the people, a tribe (one language), and not a universal concept.
Just as the word for earth indicates a country (such as Israel), and not the whole globe.
Click on the icon of the Incarnation to see it. Its worth the read.
From my limited knowledge (hence the ping to Kolokotronis, if he's around) it seems that the Divine Liturgy and the Sacred Icons of Christ in the Orthodox Churches more focused on Christs glory and mans elevation in Christ rather than on atonement from sin. (No Christian, I would assume, denies man's need after the fall to be redeemed from sin).
I was also under the impression that theosis or deification in Christ according to Saints like St. Gregory of Nazianzen and St. Gregory of Palamas was more central to the Orthodox spirituality rooted in the Incarnation which obviously lends itself to the so-called absolute primacy of Christabsolute because Gods immutable decree was the Incarnation (sin or no sin) and our "theosis" in Himas opposed to a relative primacy of Christrelative to mans need for redemption from sin--Aquinas' position that without sin there would never have been Christ the King of Glory: no sin, no Incarnation, therefore not an absolute primacy.
CHRISTE ELEISON!