Saturday, March 7, 2009

Christ the final revelation

Apropos our study of Hebrews this Sunday, F.F. Bruce wrote in his Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (p. 3):

God spoke in His mighty works of mercy and judgment, and made known through His servants the prophets the meaning and purpose of these works; they were admitted into His secret council and learned His plans in advance.  He spoke in storm and thunder to Moses, in a still small voice to Elijah.  To those who would not heed the gently flowing stream of Shiloah He spoke by means of the Euphratean flood.  Priest and prophet, sage and singer were in their several ways His spokesmen; yet all the successive acts and varying modes of revelation in the ages before Christ came did not add up to the fullness of what God had to say.  His word was not completely uttered until Christ came; but when Christ came, the word spoken in Him was indeed God's final word.…  The story of divine revelation is a story of progression up to Christ, but there is no progression beyond Him.

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