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\[ "The Christian proclamation does not communicate to us a historical report about a part of the past which we can test and either critically confirm or reject. Rather, it says to us that, in what happened in the past, however it may have happened, God has acted and that, through this action of God, the word of divine judgment and forgiveness now encountering us is legitimated, indeed, that this action of God in its proper meaning is nothing other than establishing this word, proclaiming this word, itself" (GV, 2:16). \]