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Reply. The answer is that there was no other way more suitable;
(1) because by Christ's passion man knows how much God loves him
and is thereby incited to love Him in return;[1769] (2)
because thereby Christ gave us an example of obedience, humility,
constancy, justice, and the other virtues;[1770] (3) because
Christ by His passion not only delivered man from sin, but also
merited grace and glory for him; (4) because thereby man is all the
more bound to refrain from sin;[1771] (5) because in this
way, it was in Christ that as man by dying, He conquered the devil
and vanquished death.[1772]
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