Forepromise

The present passage is important as bringing the regenerating work of the Holy Ghost into direct relation to the resurrection of the body as a forepromise of that final deliverance [...]

When it takes lot with multiplicity, Being becomes Number by the fact of awakening to manifoldness;—before, it was a preparation, so to speak, of the Beings, their fore-promise, a total of henads offering a stay for what was to be based upon them.

For so God did forepromise in the prophet Isaiah [chap. lxvi.], “ Behold, I will let p'eace into Jerusalem like a waterflood,” die. And in Psalm lxxi. “ In his time righteousness shall flourish, yea and abundance of peace," &c.

We will come to them, but first I must provide those explanations I forepromised in the preface: [...]