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When I really give anyone my time, I thereby give him the last and most personal thing that I have to give at all, namely myself. If I do not give him my time, I certainly continue to be his debtor in everything, even though in other ways I give him ever so much. The difference at once to be noticed between out having time for others and God’s having time for us is twofold, that if God goes us time, He who deals with us is He who alone has a genuine, real time to give, and that He gives us this time not just partially, not with all sorts of reservations and qualifications, such as are habitual with us when giving to others, but entirely. The fulfillment of time that took place in Jesus is not just an alms from the divine riches; if, according to Gal. 4:4, Jesus Christ is the “pleroma [fulness] of the time,” we have to remember that, according to Col. 2:2, “in him dwelleth all the pleroma of the Godhead bodily.
Karl Barth, CD I/2 p.55
Section 14 provides explanation of this statement: “God’s revelation in the event of the presence of Jesus Christ is God’s time for us.” Or, more briefly: “God has time for us.”
So far, a fascinating section. I am looking forward to exploring the relationship between Barth’s “revelation time” and Benjamin’s “messianic time.”
