to it, united not only with some or many, but—whether or not he knows them and their particular situation—with all those who are charged with this ministry. He is united to them by the simple fact that, since there is only one work as the Word of God and only one Mediator between God and man self-declared in His activity, the content of his witness cannot be other than that of theirs, nor the content of theirs other than that of his. He and they may have received, and may take up and discharge, their
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