“... I Peter 1.20 - Jesus was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake. Test.Mos. 1.14 - Moses says, ‘He designed and devised me, and he prepared me before the foundation of the world that I should be the mediator of his covenant’. Evidently, in each case the author wanted to say that the work of Moses/Jesus was in no way accidental, but rather had been planned from the beginning. That is to say, the Testament of Moses and I Peter are examples of Jews of the first century using the language of pre-existence, or at least of predestination, to express the claim that Moses/Jesus was the climax of the divine purpose prepared from the beginning of time. In each case the language used is a way of expressing the sovereignty of God more than any idea that Moses or Jesus had themselves existed at the beginning of time. ...”