spoke but in the medium through which he spoke. His speaking through the Son is simply on a different level. It is one thing to send messengers with your message; it is another thing to come yourself. This is precisely what God did in Jesus. And it is in the “last days” or “the final days” (1:2 NJB) that he spoke through the Son. This means that God’s Word, Jesus, is his final word. Never again will there come new words that are greater or richer than those through the Son. What we have in the New
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