Chapter Nine: Knowing God’S Love
CHAPTER NINE: KNOWING GOD’S LOVE
[1] Philip E. Hughes, Hope for a Despairing World (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1977), 14.
[2] Theologians, in speaking of the goodness of God, usually distinguish between His goodness of excellence (as in, He’s a good engineer), and His goodness of benevolence (as in, He’s good to His children). In this and the following chapter I use the goodness of God as His benevolence to His people and use it interchangeably with His love.
[3] Hughes, Hope for a Despairing World, 18.
[4] William Hendriksen, New Testament Commentary: Exposition of Ephesians (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1967), 102–103.
[5] 5. Alexander Carson, The History of Providence (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, n.d.), 313–314.
[6] G. C. Berkouwer, The Providence of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1983), 180, 47.