Anf-01 iii.ii.viii Pg 4
Comp. Matt. xix. 17.
and He formed in His mind a great and unspeakable conception, which He communicated to His Son alone. As long, then, as He held and preserved His own wise counsel in concealment,305 305 Literally, “in a mystery.”
He appeared to neglect us, and to have no care over us. But after He revealed and laid open, through His beloved Son, the things which had been prepared from the beginning, He conferred every blessing306 306 Literally, “all things.”
all at once upon us, so that we should both share in His benefits, and see and be active307 307 The sense is here very obscure. We have followed the text of Otto, who fills up the lacuna in the ms. as above. Others have, “to see, and to handle Him.”
[in His service]. Who of us would ever have expected these things? He was aware, then, of all things in His own mind, along with His Son, according to the relation308 308 Literally, “economically.”
subsisting between them.