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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

[the Lord Jesus Christ] has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured [the Spirit] out” (Acts 2:33). So, if through his exaltation God the Father made Jesus his vicegerent to exercise his kingship or lordship on his behalf, at Pentecost the Lord Jesus Christ poured out the Holy Spirit to be his agent and execute his kingship or lordship on his behalf. While the Lord Jesus Christ remains at the right hand of God in heaven until his second coming for “the restoration of all things”