the term Son to describe as the content of his mission preaching not only the pre-existent and incarnate redeemer of the world, but also the perfecter of creation and history. He does the same thing in his earliest writing, 1 Thess. 1:10, which speaks of the expectation of the Son coming from heaven, ‘who delivers us from the wrath to come’.22 It is also striking that in almost all his statements about the Son of God, Paul uses the title when he is speaking of the close bond between Jesus Christ