a. As a reality that has its basis in God, it always extends upward into God’s action. b. As a reality that happens to man in faith, it extends, as it were, beyond the mediating fact of Scripture, too. It becomes clear, from this incongruence between Scripture and revelation, that quite independently of the question of whether Scripture is the sole material source or not, there can never be an actual principle of sola scriptura in Christianity (something that, as we said, was still clear in principle