witness—their inspired, revelatory witness (note Eph. 3:5: “now … revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets”). In terms of the deed-word correlation that marks the giving of revelation throughout redemptive history, their witness is the foundational witness to the work of Christ; to the once-for-all work of Christ is joined a once-for-all witness to that work. Here is the matrix for the New Testament canon, for the emergence of a new body of revelation to stand alongside what eventually