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He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Although, the flesh is weak, the Spirit of God is always willing, and He makes us able.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.