God the Father willed, from all eternity, to raise us to the dignity of sons; therefore he gave our first parents not only natural life, but also supernatural life, which they lost by sin.
But God had foreknown their fall, and even permitted it, in view of a plan that was more wonderful than the first, a plan which would manifest in a most admirable manner his infinite charity and mercy: the Incarnation of his only begotten Son, that through him “we might receive adoption as sons” (Gal 4:5).
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