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"The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/24/ CCC 66], quoting from Dei Verbum)</blockquote>
"The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/24/ CCC 66], quoting from Dei Verbum)</blockquote>
=== "'''Salvation History'''" ===
= the story of that revelation, starting with the Genesis and the Fall of Man and concluding with Christ's fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham (see [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/108/ CCC 422]). A large part of that history is man's willful separation from God and God's loving, patient gathering of him back, with the ultimate "gathering" in Jesus Christ.


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=== "'''Salvation History'''" ===
= the story of that revelation, starting with the Genesis and the Fall of Man and concluding with Christ's fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham (see [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/108/ CCC 422]). A large part of that history is man's willful separation from God and God's loving, patient gathering of him back, with the ultimate "gathering" in Jesus Christ.


== ''Proto-Evangelium'' ==
== ''Proto-Evangelium'' ==