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Reply. The Son was sent visibly by the Incarnation,
but He is also sent invisibly, for He said: "And We
will come to him, and will make Our abode with
him";[692] and besides this the Son has His origin
from the Father. Thus He is sent invisibly according to
the gift of grace gratum faciens.
Reply to the first objection. Certain gifts are
appropriated to the Son, namely, those which pertain to
the intellect and incline to love, as the gift of wisdom,
which is a kind of taste for knowledge and is called a kind
of experimental knowledge.
Reply to the second objection. We treat here only of the
knowledge which inclines to love, since the Son of God
is the Word spirating love.
Reply to the third objection. We distinguish two
invisible missions, which are inseparable: "the one
cannot be without the other, because neither takes place
without grace gratum faciens, nor is one person separated
from the other."
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