requires. Divine wisdom, therefore, fittingly provides man with means of salvation, in the shape of corporeal and sensible signs that are called sacraments.”7 Accordingly, Exodus is in great part a book about the institution of the sacraments of the Old Law. Second, the revelation of God provides a genuine enlightenment to natural human reason. God is “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob” (Exod. 3:6), but he is also the God of the philosophers. “In the beginning was the Logos” (John
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