"Because Jesus came, died, and was resurrected, O[ld] T[estament] festivals have now been fulfilled, and to maintain them ‘means reverting back to the old covenant, as if Christ had never come."
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In the contemporary Vocabulaire biblique, Protestant theologian Oscar Cullmann is quoted as admitting that.
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