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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'' ==