“Clearly this at-one-ment is hard, demanding, and, at times, deeply painful work, as the work of redemption always is. There is digging and dunging. There is watering and nourishing and pruning. And there is always the endless approaches to grafting—all to one saving end, that the trees of the vineyard would ‘thrive exceedingly’ and become ‘one body; … the fruits [being] equal’ [Jacob 6:73]. … It has always been the work of Christ (and his disciples) in every dispensation to gather them, heal them, and unite them with their Master” (Holland, Christ and the New Covenant, 165–66).