...because God made everything with complete power, wisdom, and goodness or benevolence, it was fitting that God should so restore all things as to display that smae power, wisdom, and benevolence. Now what is more powerful than to combine within a single person two natures so widely disparate? What is wiser and more fitting than to bring the entire universe to full perfection by uniting the first and last, that is, the Word of God, which is the origin of all things, and human nature, which was the last of all creatures? What is more benevolent than for the master to redeem the slave by taking the form of a servant? Certainly this is a deed of such unfathomable goodness that no greater proof of mercy, kindness, and friendship can be conceived.
[Bonaventure, Breviloquium (4.1.2), Monti, tr., Franciscan Institute Publications (St. Bonaventure, NY: 2005) pp. 132-133.]
