4. the mystery of God’s will consists in his purpose to reunite all things in Christ—v. 10 As Best says, “believers, foreordained and already possessing their deliverance, are now told about the secret of the ultimate destiny of the cosmos” (133). The mystery “which has been disclosed to believers in accordance with God’s purpose for history is his summing up of all things in Christ” (Lincoln, 32). The verb translated “summing up” means either “to renew, arrange under one head, reduce to one sum,”