previous times and events led up to this culmination, and Christ appears as the fulfillment and key of all that has preceded Him or will follow. In placing God’s self-revelation in His Son at the end of a list of His previous self-disclosures, the author of our epistle stresses the difference between this last self-disclosure and the previous ones. God’s Incarnation in Christ is not simply the next in an ongoing series of epiphanies, nor is it just the last one. Christ is not only (as Muslims claim