appears as the consummation of God in the work of salvation—not chronologically, however, but logically. That is, it does not occur after some other features of His saving work, only because of those features. The Apostle has indicated certain achievements of God in logical order. It is written then: “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: