such, it is fairly seen, even more broadly, as providing an overall outlook on the history of redemption and revelation as a whole. This declaration captures three interrelated aspects of God’s “speech,” which, I take it, includes deed-revelation as well as word-revelation (that is, verbal revelation in the strict sense). (1) Revelation is expressly in view as a historical process. (2) The diversity involved in this process is accented, particularly for old covenant revelation, revelation through