high above ours as the heavens are above the earth (Is 55:9). God is not exhausted in his redemptive/revelatory activity, nor is his person actualized in that activity. As Creator and Redeemer he is more than Creator and Redeemer, infinitely and incomprehensibly more. With that essential qualification kept in view, however, invariably God’s speech is related to his actions, his word to his work. Given the fall, redemptive deed is the raison d’être for the revelatory word. “Revelation is so interwoven
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