If justice and mercy were to be reconciled, there would have to be a Incarnation, which means God assuming a human nature in such a way that He will be true God and true man. There would have to be a union of God and man, built upon somewhat the same lines as the union of spirit and matter in man.

Man has a double nature, the nature of the body which is material, the nature of the soul which is spiritual, and yet he is only one person. The Incarnation of God would imply some such union of two natures in the unity of a person, but quite naturally a far more perfect one.

Let us make this solution clear by an example. On the desk before me is a pencil. That pencil represents human nature; of itself the pencil cannot write. My hand now goes down to the pencil, takes it up, moves it across a paper, and immediately the pencil is endowed with a power which before it had not. If after I had written, you should ask me who wrote the lines, I would not say my fingers wrote them, nor would I say my pencil wrote them, but I would say, I wrote them.

In other words, we attribute the actions of various natures to a person and the one thing that characterizes the person is not action, not nature, not direction, but responsibility.

That is why I do not say my stomach is hungry, but I am hungry; not my eyes see, but I see. Actions belong to the person.

Now let the pencil represent poor human nature, of itself unable to pay an infinite debt to God. Imagine now a divine person with a divine nature coming down to that human, taking it up and becoming united with it in a far more perfect way than my hand is united with the pencil.

If such an act of condescension should ever happen, the action of the human nature and the action of the divine nature would not be attributed to either nature alone, as the action of the pencil would not be attributed to the nature of the pencil or to the nature of the hand alone; it would be attributed to the person.

But if the person were one of the Persons of the Blessed Trinity, namely, the second Person, the eternal Son of God, it would follow that every thought, every word, every sigh, every tear of the human nature of that person would be the very thought, very word, very sigh, and very tear of God.

Then justice and mercy could be reconciled.

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