expression “designates the arrival of the present dispensation of time at its predetermined goal of fulfillment through the appearance of the Messiah.”12 This is the time of fulfillment, as Paul says elsewhere, the time when the old has gone and the new has come (2 Cor. 5:17), when that which once was hidden has now been manifest (Col. 1:26; Rom. 16:26), the very end of the ages that has come upon us in Christ (1 Cor. 10:11). This is the time in which the beautiful motet has broken into the dissonance