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John 15:14-15 ('Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants... but I have called you friends'), with Exodus 33:11, where the Lord speaks to Moses face to face as a man to his friend. Neville's stages of the relation to God: first the servant, who proves he can bring the desired state into being; then the friend, who communes face to face with the deep of himself; and at last the Son, when the seal is broken.
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John 15:15 | I no longer call you servant for now I call you friend for you do whatsoever I command you