the same time foresaw how large a multitude of godly persons
would by His grace be translated to the fellowship of the angels._
And God was not ignorant that man would sin, and that, being himself
made subject now to death, he would propagate men doomed to die, and
that these mortals would run to such enormities in sin, that even the
beasts devoid of rational will, and who were created in numbers from
the waters and the earth, would live more securely and peaceably with
their own kind than men, who had been propagated from one individual
for the very purpose of commending concord. For not even lions or
dragons have ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged
with one another.[561] But God foresaw also that by His grace a
people would be called to adoption, and that they, being justified
by the remission of their sins, would be united by the Holy Ghost
to the holy angels in eternal peace, the last enemy, death, being
destroyed; and He knew that this people would derive profit from the
consideration that God had caused all men to be derived from one, for
the sake of showing how highly He prizes unity in a multitude.