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The apostolic witness is constituted explicitly as such by the christological assertion classically formulated as "Jesus is the Christ." However, the evidence provided by the New Testament writings requires us to recognize not only that this assertion was made explicit by means of a wide variety of formulations, of which even its classical formulation is only one, but also that, in the earliest stratum of Christian witness, it was apparently merely implied and not explicitly made at all.

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