and then explain their relationship as being “relatively independent,” cannot in my opinion do justice to their basic unity, nor to the fact that the Holy Spirit in the last days will take everything of Christ. We surely may not interpret God’s redemptive-historical, progressive activity with such a pneumatic “plus” that it jeopardizes the “filioque.” This, it seems to me, explains Van Ruler’s idea of the “messianic interim,” which in its special form is connected with his view of the regnum Christi
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