61. What, then, says my opponent, could not the Supreme Ruler have brought about those things which He had ordained to be done in the world, without feigning Himself a man? If it were necessary to do as you say, He perhaps would have done so; because it was not necessary, He acted otherwise. The reasons why He chose to do it in this way, and did not choose to do it in that, are unknown, being involved in so great obscurity, and comprehensible by scarcely any; but these you might perhaps have understood if you were not already prepared not to understand, and were not shaping your course to brave unbelief, before that was explained to you which you sought to know and to hear.

LXI. Quid enim, dicitis, rex summus ea, quae in mundo facienda esse decreverat, sine homine simulato non quibat efficere? Si oporteret ita fieri, quemadmodum dicitis, ista fortasse fecisset: quia non oportuit, aliter fecit. Quare isto voluit, et illo genere noluit, latent taliter involutae, et vix ulli comprehensibiles causae, quas accipere fortasse potuisses, si non esses jamdudum ad non accipiendum paratus: 0801B et prius te formares ad non credendi frontem, quam tibi esset expositum id, quod nosse atque audire conquireres .