so it belongs to his nature to bind himself and, in doing so, to go all the way to the Cross. Thus, as the Bible sees it, the unconditional nature of God’s action results in a genuine two-sidedness: the testament becomes a covenant. The Church Fathers described this novel two-sidedness, which arises from faith in Christ as the Fulfiller of the promises, as the “incarnation of God” and the “divinization of man”. God binds himself by giving Scripture as the binding word of promise, but he goes beyond