[SoothingDave]

Notice the imediate retraction of some of the impact then right back to the adulation.

You mean this:

We must take care, however, not to consider this dependence as an abasement or imperfection in Jesus Christ. For Mary, infinitely inferior to her Son, who is God, does not command him in the same way as an earthly mother would command her child who is beneath her.

Yours is a cynical reading. If, instead, you read it as it was intended, you would have nothing to complain about.

Consider it an "overriding theme" to the work.

SD

[biblewonk]

Consider it an "overriding theme" to the work.

It's a minor undertown mentioned only as damage control.