of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ” not to Jews alone but to “all who came to him,” both Jews and Gentiles (28:30–31). It is probably significant that the doctrine of “the kingdom of God” does not appear in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed as a positive dogmatic affirmation, but as a polemic against the false teaching associated with the name Marcellus of Ancyra, that there would be an end of the kingdom of Christ.8 Repeatedly, Christian confessions of faith have introduced the topic
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