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Usage examples of befitting.

Objection 1: It would seem that it is not befitting to a Divine Person to assume a created nature.

Therefore, since to assume is to take to oneself, and consequently what is assumed is added to the one who assumes, it does not seem to be befitting to a Divine Person to assume a created nature.

Hence it is plain that to assume a nature is most properly befitting to a Person.

Objection 1: It would seem that it is not befitting to the Divine Nature to assume.

Hence it is not befitting to the Divine Nature to assume human nature.

What is befitting to the Divine Nature in Itself is befitting to the three Persons, as goodness, wisdom, and the like.

But to assume belongs to It by reason of the Person of the Word, as was said above, and hence it is befitting to that Person alone.

If, therefore, Christ, as man, was predestinated the Son of God, it will follow that this is befitting to any other man.

Something may be befitting to a man by reason of human nature, in two ways.

First, so that human nature be the cause thereof: thus risibility is befitting to Socrates by reason of human nature, being caused by its principles.

In this manner predestination is not befitting either to Christ or to any other man, by reason of human nature.

Secondly, a thing may be befitting to someone by reason of human nature, because human nature is susceptible of it.

The use of miracles did not become her while she lived: because at that time the Teaching of Christ was to be confirmed by miracles, and therefore it was befitting that Christ alone, and His disciples who were the bearers of His doctrine, should work miracles.

Therefore it was not befitting that either Jeremias or John the Baptist should be sanctified in the womb.

Secondly, this was befitting to a property of the Son Himself, Who is sent.