4. Humility is a virtue that belongs
essentially to Christ, not only as man, but more especially as God, because
with God to be good, holy and merciful is not virtue but nature, and humility
is only a virtue. God cannot exalt Himself above what He is, in His most high
Being, nor can He increase His vast and infinite greatness; but He can
humiliate Himself as in fact He did humiliate and lower Himself. "He
humbled Himself, He emptied Himself," [Phil. ii, 7, 8] revealing Himself
to us, through His humility, as the Lord of all virtues, the conqueror of the
world, of death, Hell and sin.
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