"The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself."
— Peter Abelard

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in "The Abelardian Doctrine Of The Atonement" (1892), published in Doctrine and Development : University Sermons (1898) by Hastings Rashdall, p. 138