In what does the Incarnation of the Son of God consist, considered in itself?
It consists in this, that the divine nature and a human nature, each preserving what was proper to each, were substantially and indissolubly united in the unity of the one and same divine Person, which is the Person of the Son of God (II. 1-6).
Why did this union take place in the Person of the Son rather than in that of the Father or the Holy Ghost?
The reason is because the properties of the Son, who in God, has the nature of the Word, and to whom belongs by way of appropriation all that refers to wisdom through which God created all things, make the Son to be especially fitting for the restoration of the fallen human race; and also because proceeding from the Father, He could be sent by the Father, and He, in His turn, could send us His Spirit as the fruit of His Redemption (III. 8).
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