Further, likeness is the foundation of the fittingness of the Incarnation of the Divine Person, as above stated (Q.
If, however, those diverse objects be contrary to one another, then pleasure and sorrow are not only specifically contrary, but they also have a certain mutual fittingness and affinity: for instance to rejoice in good and to sorrow for evil.
That this is impossible with regard to the good of virtue, is due to the fact that virtue's good depends on fittingness in relation to some one thing--i.
Consequently the reasons for these observances may be taken in two ways, first according to their fittingness to the worship of God; secondly, according as they foreshadow something touching the Christian mode of life.
For intemperance and justice, which are in the contrary genera of virtue and vice, are not contrary to one another in respect of their specific nature; and yet they have no affinity or fittingness to one another.
Of the number of the beatitudes; (4) Of the fittingness of the rewards ascribed to the beatitudes.
Thus the goodness of the form must not be a fittingness to something outside and separate from the form, it must be intrinsic in the form itself.
There is a certain fittingness in adoring towards the east.
This due is based on a certain fittingness and not on an obligation: so that it answers to the idea of due in the lowest degree.
This also seems to denote fittingness rather than obligation.
Augustine makes the beatitudes correspond to the gifts according to the order in which they are set forth, observing at the same time a certain fittingness between them.
