Christ’s gift of self “to the very end” is the “Auslegung,” the “exegesis” or exposition, of the Father’s love in and for the world, and in this sense the “truth” (in the Johannine sense). Christ is the truth as fullness, and for the same reason as covenant: in him, the Father’s whole love is unfolded in the whole incarnate Son in and for the world thanks to the mediation of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is the exegete of the exegesis of the Father that is the Son. Having given his whole being, Christ
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