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Bultmann argues that the first proclaimers could understand Jesus' death as the salvation event only by first understanding his life. But, then, Marxsen argues in much the same way in explaining how the cross comes to be understood as the saving event because the significance of Jesus' entire earthly ministry is attached to the one event of his death – -- interchangeably, however, with his birth, to which such significance is also attached (Gal 4:4 ff.).

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