| ### QUESTION 1 ### OF THE FITNESS OF THE INCARNATION ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### Concerning the first, three things occur to be considered: first, the fitness of the Incarnation; secondly, the mode of union of the Word Incarnate; thirdly, what follows this union. #### Under the first head there are six points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether it is fitting for God to become incarnate? #### (2) Whether it was necessary for the restoration of the human race? #### (3) Whether if there had been no sin God would have become incarnate? #### (4) Whether He became incarnate to take away original sin rather than actual? #### (5) Whether it was fitting for God to become incarnate from the beginning of the world? #### (6) Whether His Incarnation ought to have been deferred to the end of the world? ####  |