is said. The predicate makes a statement about the subject. In a sentence, something is thus “predicated” of the subject. Given this, the predicate typically mediates between the subject named and the conceptual world of the reader, allowing him or her to learn something concerning the subject at stake. The “main subjects” are the most important theological themes of a text. As I argue in more detail in the postscript, the main subjects cannot simply be presupposed, but they should be worked out