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Peter Abelard Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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