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Why is the earliest (= apostolic) witness normative?

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Thus the reason the earliest Christian witness is uniquely normative, so far as its normativeness is understood to be de iure as well as de facto, is the Jesus Christ to whom it bears witness. This Jesus Christ is the explicit primal source of all properly Christian authority; and the unique normativeness of the earliest (= apostolic) witness is that it is the original and originating witness to this Jesus Christ.

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