dialectic38—is this: God and the Scripture of God are two things, no less than the Creator and the creature are two things. That in God there are many things hidden, of which we are ignorant, no one doubts—as the Lord himself says concerning the last day: “Of that day no one knows but the Father” [Mark 13:32], and in Acts 1[:7]: “It is not for you to know times and seasons”; and again: “I know whom I have chosen” [John 13:18], and Paul says: “The Lord knows those who are his” [2 Tim. 2:19], and
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