5586. What was decreed - though not at that time, but from eternity - is not learned except from what happened, namely, that since no mortal can be saved without the inner law, that is, without belief in God the Messiah, and since this people, to whom the promise had been made, was such that they could not believe, therefore the Gospel was brought over to the gentiles. [Abraham; Belief (Faith); Portrayal (Representation)]