God’s covenant with humanity after the flood can be seen as an alliance against a common enemy: Because God has created humans in his image, “our race could not perish in sin and death without God’s honour suffering” and therefore “not only man, but also God had a vested interest in not cutting off the future development of our race.” In the symbol of this covenant, the rainbow, we have signified the light of God’s ongoing grace dispensed and diffused through his judgments against the ongoing sin and death.
Light in Public Life
