covenant. Just as the Jesus history is qualitatively distinct from our own, the apostolic canon is distinct from subsequent tradition. One is definitive (revelation), and the other interpretive (illumination). The epicletic interim between Christ’s advents is not an era of writing new chapters in the history of redemption.49 Rather, it is a period in which the Spirit equips us for the mission between Acts and the Apocalypse—right in the mid-era of the ordinary ministry, with its new-covenant canon.