XXI. Terra, materia hominis et humanitatis Filii Dei.
XXI. Terra, materia hominis et humanitatis Filii Dei.
For the very substance of God's work is in man, who is the matter of the humanity of the Son of God; because that work, which God created man from the earth, was made from the matter of that Virgin, who gave birth to the Son of God in pure and holy humanity without stain.
Read the original Latin
Nam ipsa materia operis Dei in homine est, qui materia humanitatis Filii Dei est; quoniam de terra opus illud, quod Deus hominem creavit, factum, materia Virginis illius erat, quae in pura et sancta humanitate Filium Dei sine macula edidit.
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