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"The restoring of mankind ought not to take place, and could not, without man paid the debt which he owed God for his sin. And this debt was so great that, while none but man must solve the debt, none but God was able to do it; so that he who does it must be both God and man. And hence arises a necessity that God should take man into unity with his own person; so that he who in his nature was bound to pay the debt, but could not, might be able to do it in the person of God. No man except this one (Christ) ever gave to God what he was not obliged to lose, or paid a debt he did not owe. But he freely offered to the Father what there was no need of his ever losing, and paid for sinners what he owed not for himself."

Anselm continues to amaze me. He puts things so clearly and simply. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading his works.