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God designed the Gospel, His plan of salvation, His plan to actually save His chosen people, in such a way as to preclude human boasting. Paul does not say that boasting is "minimized" but that it is "totally excluded." He does not mean that no one ever made a wrongful boast or couldn't do that. He means, it seems clear, that all grounds for legitimately making a boast about our salvation are nonexistent.