them? If God can set things in motion, why not set them apart? If this is the logic of the biblical reasoning from creation to new creation, then it might apply likewise to the doctrine of sanctification. “Therefore do not seek within the created order that which is above the created order. Do not bring that which sanctifies down to the level of those who are sanctified.”30 Here, Basil, the great Cappadocian father, links holiness and creation very specifically by noting that the created order cannot
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