This
passage is taken from John’s description of the last moments of Jesus on the
cross; and the words, “It is finished,” by the opponents of new
revelation, are twisted to mean that the work of Christ being completed, no
more revelation was to be given.
That
these words wrung from the trembling lips of the expiring Son of God meant no
such thing, is proven by the fact that nearly all the revelations in the New
Testament were given after those words—“It is finished”_-were uttered. Nor can
they mean that the work of Christ was finished, for we find Him even after His
resurrection laboring forty days among His disciples, teaching them all things
respecting the kingdom of heaven (Acts i, 3). What Jesus did mean was His
suffering was finished—He had drank the cup given Him of the Father, and wrung
out the dregs in bitterest anguish. (B. H. Roberts, "A New
Witness for God," The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 50,
no. 21 [May 21, 1888]: 333)
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