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It is not biblical to hold that eschatology is a sort of appendix to soteriology, a consummation of the saving work of God. . . . There is an absolute end posited for the universe before and apart from sin. The universe, as created, was only a beginning, the meaning of which was not perpetuation, but attainment. The principle of God’s relation to the world from the outset was a principle of action or eventuation. The goal was not comparative (i.e., evolution); it was superlative (i.e., the final goal). This goal was not only previous to sin, but irrespective of sin.