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"In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son." Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one, perfect and unsurpassable Word. In him he has said everything; there will be no other word than this one. (CCC 65)</blockquote>Paragraph 65 quotes St. John of the Cross (here in part),<blockquote>what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son</blockquote>Paragraph 66: <blockquote>'''There will be no further Revelation''' | "In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son." Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one, perfect and unsurpassable Word. In him he has said everything; there will be no other word than this one. (CCC 65)</blockquote>Paragraph 65 quotes St. John of the Cross (here in part),<blockquote>what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son</blockquote>Paragraph 66: <blockquote>'''There will be no further Revelation''' | ||
"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'''" is the story of that revelation, starting with | "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'''" is 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]) | ||
== ''Proto-Evangelium'' == | == ''Proto-Evangelium'' == | ||