Every detail of God’s plan for saving us from the
effects of Adam’s sin was decided from all eternity. It was not by chance that
Jesus Christ, as man, was a member of the Jewish race nor an accident that He
was born of a certain woman. Mary was chosen before time began to be the mother
of God. (John C. Heehan, Our Faith [London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.,
1956], 193)
