time when the Son was not …’ (GA 17:148; GD:121). And so: ‘his sending into the world by the Father in time is to be distinguished from the eternal relationship between the two which underlies it’ (GA 17:147; GD:120). Distinguished as eternity is from time, not distinguished in content, however! For as the very next sentence informs us, ‘The Son is what he is because God in his revelation, in his Word, does not just posit something but posits himself. He is both subject and predicate, and truly subject
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