divine acts: ‘God manifesting Himself in the history of the world in a supernatural manner and for a special purpose.’1 This, of course, is not intended as the denial of subjective and internal revelation, as in prophets and apostles. It is still an important advance when, in accordance with the Biblical conception itself, the stress is shifted back, even from prophetic and apostolic teaching, to the divine acts which stand behind both. ‘He made known His ways unto Moses, His doings unto the children