the preaching of redemption, as apostolic preaching, belongs to the actuality of revelation, and as such it has its own unique character. And in this exclusive sense, it is also the very foundation of the church to which the latter knew itself to be bound from the very beginning. This is the most holy faith on which the church has to build (see Jude, 20 and compare verse 17). This is what has been given through the apostles, the depositum custodi (1 Tim. 6:20; 2 Tim. 1:14; 2:2) that the church has
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