that “we are led finally to assume an intrinsic connection between the incarnation and the revelation of Jesus Christ in ‘signs’ which it introduces and renders possible.”14 The signs point us to what God is doing certainly, but it is what he is doing in Jesus, not what he is doing in the human race at large, that is their object. And what God is doing in Jesus is accomplishing the decisive act for the salvation of sinners. He is making a revelation—it is because of what he did in Jesus that we know