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On Divine Intervention

"Intervention" is the abstract noun cognate with the infinitive "to intervene" (L: intervenire = to come between), in the sense of coming between to hinder or modify, to interfere in, the affairs of others, usually through force or the threat thereof. Thus to speak of divine intervention is presumably to speak of God's coming between creaturely decisions and actions so as to hinder or modify them, hence of God's interfering in creaturely affairs through omnipotent, overriding force.

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