sees when one looks back that it did genuinely stand there, and not, for example, alongside the letter of Scripture (in a second material source of faith). He expounds for the Church and in the Church, and for the individual only to the extent that he is a member of the Church; this lets us see how much a pneumatic function the hierarchical office has. The venture of transcending the Word into the Spirit thus becomes the assurance that the transcendence coincides with the return of the Word to the
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