this primal state of nature, since on Murray’s (mistaken) definition of covenant, “grace” came with covenant, and that spelled the end of any momentary hypothetical administration of simple justice.21 Although Kline is more concerned with Daniel Fuller and Norman Shepherd, he believes that Murray’s view of the covenant as essentially a gracious arrangement was the beginning of serious problems in Reformed thinking about the relationship between God and man in the garden. The irony here is that in
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