God’s self-revelation in history means everything, but that only becomes an encounter with the paradox of God-come-near if God grants the condition to see the Son in the servant. So “let no innkeeper or philosophy professor fancy that he is such a clever fellow that he can detect something if the god himself does not give the condition.”11 The encounter with the eternal could only happen in history, but God’s revelation could never be extrapolated from history, deduced from the facts by some religious Sherlock Holmes.
