“ Can man be justified compared with God? Or he that is born of a woman appear clean? ”
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1274). copy citation
| Author | Thomas Aquinas |
|---|---|
| Source | Summa Theologica |
| Topic | God women |
| Date | 1274 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19950/pg19950-images.html |
Context
“23:24, to be shut up within the narrow limits of the womb. Therefore it seems that He should not have been conceived of a woman.
Obj. 3: Further, those who are conceived of a woman contract a certain uncleanness: as it is written (Job 25:4) : "Can man be justified compared with God? Or he that is born of a woman appear clean?" But it was unbecoming that any uncleanness should be in Christ: for He is the Wisdom of God, of whom it is written (Wis. 7:25) that "no defiled thing cometh into her." Therefore it does not seem right that He should have taken flesh from a woman.”
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