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When "the fulness of the time" was come, God sent forth his only-begotten Son, "the Desire
of all nations," to redeem the world from the curse of sin, and to establish an everlasting kingdom
of truth, love, and peace for all who should believe on his name.
In Jesus Christ a preparatory history both divine and human comes to its close. In him
culminate all the previous revelations of God to Jews and Gentiles; and in him are fulfilled theA.D. 1-100.