Let it be reasoned as clearly as possible that the Divine could not subjugate the hells and restore to order all things in the heavens and on the earths, except from the Divine through an assumed Human, because every Divine operation passes through the whole order from first things to ultimates, and operates in them, for all things are simultaneously present in ultimates. On account of this, it has been shown that there is strength in ultimates, not from themselves but from those things which are in last things from first things, and so there is strength in the sense of the letter of the Word. It is for that reason that the Lord so often said that it is the Father in Him Who doeth the works, also elsewhere that He Himself doeth the works. Wherefore it can he confirmed that the Divine would not have been able to undertake any work of the kind unless He had assumed the Human, thus He could do no more for the human race by His Own Divine because when the Lord came into the world the human race had to such an extent removed itself and was therefore so remote that not even in one case was there natural good from a spiritual origin, and thus it [the human race] was consummated. This is also confirmed from various references in Daniel and in passages in the Word treating of consummation and settlement and of the end that would come, and from other passages. Perhaps also [it may be confirmed] that the last judgment described by the flood was effected from the Divine in the remnant of the human race, thus the Divine effected it from what was His own there, and so from first things through ultimates. The ultimate was then in the remnant of the human race. And when this ceased to be the case, the Divine Itself, in order that the human race might be saved was pleased to make Himself the ultimate in the Human which He assumed, making it at the same time Divine so that it might operate to eternity from first things through ultimates.