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The answer is in the negative. But He came "in the fullness of
time" as St. Paul says.[380]
For it was not fitting that God become incarnate before sin, since
the Incarnation is for the redemption of the human race; nor was the
Incarnation fitting immediately after sin, and this for three
reasons.
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1) That man, being humbled, would more readily acknowledge the
seriousness of the disease and the necessity of Redemption, and so
would cry out for it.
2) That the human race might gradually be led from imperfection to
perfection by means of the natural law, the Mosaic law, and the
Gospel.
3) Because it befitted the dignity of the Word incarnate that His
coming be announced by the prophets.
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