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In this book, T. F. Torrance aims to discover how and why an enormous difference came about in the early history of the Christian Church between the faith of the New Testament and that of the second and third centuries. He explores how the concept of grace is distinctively characteristic of every doctrine of the New Testament, and yet at the same time is the most changeable.

kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me.”1 In the case of the spies who were shown kindness by Rahab,2 it was the kindness which led to the forming of the tie between people who were not under the same covenant or blood-relationship. Here the idea is simply that an act of such kindness puts one under obligation to render a return. The important fact is that ḥesed is used both for the initial act and the return, and the underlying idea is that the relation has
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