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>The Christian concept of plerôma is not outside history, it is its goal and fulfilment. It is the fullness of the Divinity which is dwelling in the person of Jesus Christ, from whom all fullness and fulfilment comes for the believer. As the supreme Divine Word, all things proceed from him. In this way he holds within him all fullness, pinna, which is at the same time sunyata because it is without limitation of any sort. The Word is made flesh which has the double meaning of taking to himself all created reality and therefore taking on the fullness of things; and of self-emptying, even to the oiint of being rejected and crucified, and therefore entering into the void of death and desolation. By being both "fullness" and "emptiness," both eternally and in time, he is the fullness, pleroma, in a total way. He stands at the completion of time, as he does at its beginning

just in awe of this gnosis lads