"no one should . . . suppose that the creator of sex despised sex"

      "To heal souls God adopts all kinds of means suitable to the times which are ordered by his marvellous wisdom. . . .  But in no way did he show greater loving-kindness in his dealings with the human race for its good, than when the Wisdom of God, his only Son, coeternal and consubstantial with the Father, deigned to assume human nature; when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.  For thus he showed to carnal people, given over to bodily sense and unable with the mind to behold the truth, how lofty a place among creatures belonged to human nature, in that he appeared to men not merely visibly—for he could have done that in some ethereal body adapted to our weak powers of vision—but as a true man.  The assuming of our nature was to be also its liberation.  And that no one should perchance suppose that the creator of sex despised sex, he became a man born of a woman [(et ne quis forte sexus a suo creatore se contemptum putaret, uirum suscepit, natus ex femina est)]."

     St. Augustine, De uera religione xvi/30, trans. Burleigh, LCC 6, 239.  Latin from CAG as reproduced in Past Masters =CCL 32, 205-206.  I.e., no one should suppose that the Creator of the sexual difference despised the sexual difference.