God, who is faithful, put himself in our debt, not by receiving anything but by promising so much . . . . He promised eternal salvation, everlasting happiness, with the angels, an immortal inheritance, endless glory, the hoyful vision of his face, his holy dwelling in heaven, and after resurrection from the dead no further fear of dying . . . . He promised men divinity, mortal immortality, sinners justification, the poor a rising to glory.
But, brethren, because God' promises seemed impossible to men - equality with the angels in exchange for mortality, corruption, poverty, weakness, dust and ashes - God not only made a written contract with men to win their belief, but also established a mediator of his good faith, not a prince or angel or archangel, but his only Son. He wanted, through his Don, to show us and give us the way he would lead us tot he goal he has promised.
It was not enough for God to make his Son our guide to the way; he made him the Way itself, that you might travel with him as leader and by him as the Way. - St. Augustine, from A discourse on the psalms
Good stuff, St. A.
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