significance for how we understand Old Testament promises to be fulfilled, for everything that Israel hoped for is declared to be fulfilled in Christ. Paul’s epistles reflect this anchoring of the message in the history of redemption. This connection is more explicit in some places but always implied. Perhaps the most obvious examples are in the epistles to the Galatians and to the Romans. I think the point has been made that the New Testament consists of documents that belong overall to a movement
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