| ### QUESTION 23 ### OF ADOPTION AS BEFITTING TO CHRIST ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now come to consider whether adoption befits Christ: and under this head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether it is fitting that God should adopt sons? #### (2) Whether this is fitting to God the Father alone? #### (3) Whether it is proper to man to be adopted to the sonship of God? #### (4) Whether Christ can be called the adopted Son? ####  |