D. First Corollary
33. From this follows a corollary, how in the conferring of such remedies (necessary for the human race) mercy and truth are in concord.
34. For the work of the greatest mercy is to give remedies as great to man who is enemy, and it is the work of the greatest justice (on account of so welcome an obedience on the part of so beloved a person) to confer a remedy as great on those for whom that person offered the obedience; for it is just to accept the obedience of so beloved a person on behalf of him for whom the obedience is offered.
35. It was also the greatest mercy in the person making the offering thus to offer himself for the enemies of the Trinity - the Trinity he supremely loved, and this offering was a mark too of the greatest justice, both in reference to God and in reference to fallen man. For the person offering would only seem to love God and neighbor supremely if he wanted to present that obedience for so great a common good, namely the beatitude of man - to which God had predestined him and disposed that he would not reach it otherwise than through that obedience.