CXVIII. Dens cretUor gloriam suam solus habere noluit.

CXVIII. Dens cretUor gloriam suam solus habere noluit.

For God created all things, and He gives life to what He has created, and just as He had planned from before the ages, He brought His works to perfection. For God did not want to keep His glory to Himself, but instead shared it with His creatures, so that they might rejoice with Him, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But the first angel fell, and he killed himself, and he caused the first man to fall. In the case of man, the elements have been turned into turmoil; and in the killing of Abel, his blood was received, where the earth drank his blood. And the Devil said to himself, "I will fulfill all my will in the work of God, and I will do more in that than I have done through myself." But God looked into His great counsel, discerning how to justify the man who had perished; indeed, the great counsel of God is such that no creature has penetrated it. In that same plan, God decided that His Son would be born of a Virgin to redeem humanity; no one could oppose that plan.