and certainty the absolutely prevenient “history” which as the opus Trinitatis internum ad extra* is in God Himself the eternal beginning of all His ways and works, namely, the election of grace of the God who loves in freedom and is free in love, in which the Son, thereto ordained by the Father and obedient to the Father, has elected Himself for sinful man and sinful man for Himself. In the light of this, the one true God is the God of man in time, yet not merely in the time in which Jesus Christ
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