Cap. VI Arg. 9: first — Christ the Mediator predestined without prior merits (Augustine)
First limb: how was Christ predestined Savior — by God's gratuitous good pleasure, or by foresight of works? Hear Augustine (On the Predestination of the Saints 15): the brightest light of predestination and grace is the Savior himself, the Mediator, the man Christ Jesus — and by what prior merits of his own, of works or of faith, did the human nature in him earn to be that?
Latin
Quod ad prius: Si quaeratur, Quomodo Christus in Salvatorem praedestinatus? secundum Dei gratuitum beneplacitum, an secundum praevisionem operum? audite eundem Augustinum: Est etiam praeclarissimum lumen praedestinationis et gratiae ipse Salvator, ipse Mediator Dei et hominum, homo Christus Jesus: qui ut hoc esset, quibus tandem suis, vel operum vel fidei, praecedentibus meritis naturae humanae quae in illo est comparavit? De Praed. Sanct. cap. 15.