suited both for slaves and those who are as yet undisciplined [indisciplinatis]; and gives fitting [congruentia] precepts to those that are free, and have been justified by faith, as well as throws His own inheritance open to those that are sons (A.H. 4.9.1).32 God’s plan for salvation history is presented in terms of fatherly pedagogy. God is raising up sons in his Son, Christ Jesus. This pedagogy forms the rationale behind the different laws imposed by God in history. God imposes “fitting precepts”
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