obedience accepts the ordination of man to salvation which we resist, and in that way satisfies us, i.e., achieves that which can positively satisfy us. That is the absolutely unique being, attitude and activity of God to which the “God with us” at the heart of the Christian message refers. It speaks of the peace which God Himself in this man has made between Himself and us. We see the seriousness and force of the divine redemptive will in the fact that it is not too little and not too much for Him
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