The Fulness of Time (5)

As was said, the expression fullness of time implies that the precise time when Christ appeared had a peculiar relation to His appearance; that the prepara­tory steps, through the previous development of the history of the church in particular and of the history of the world at large in general had been directed precisely to this point and proceeded so far in order to admit of this appearance -- the goal and central point of all. What the preparatory steps, through the previous development of...