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We do not know the whole fact of Christ...

We do not know the whole fact of Christ incarnate unless we know his church, and its life as part of his own life. . . . The Body is the fullness of Christ, and the history of the Church and the lives of the saints are acts in the biography of the Messiah.

Glory Descending: Michael Ramsey and His Writings, ed. Douglas Dales et al. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 102.