We can now see how people can mean different things by “pure grace,” and have taken grace to be “free” in more than one sense. “Pure grace” may mean its singularity (God is nothing but benevolent) or its noncircularity (God’s grace seeks no return). Grace may be “free” in being given irrespective of the recipient’s worth (incongruous), or in being given without subsequent expectations (noncircular), or in both senses at once.
