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Updated: May 4, 2025
I like to think that the most gigantic task ever attempted on this planet the work of the world's redemption was finished with a precision and a nicety that no jeweler could rival. 'It is finished! He cried from the Cross. 'Tetelestai! Tetelestai! When He looked upon His work in Creation and saw that it was good, He placed it beyond the power of man to improve upon it.
'Tetelestai! he said, 'tetelestai! It was an artist's word. When the painter or the sculptor had put the last finishing touches to the vivid landscape or the marble bust, he would stand back a few feet to admire his masterpiece, and, seeing in it nothing that called for correction or improvement, would murmur fondly, 'Tetelestai! tetelestai! It was a priestly word.
And when, in the fullness of time, the Lamb of God offered Himself on the altar of the ages, He rejoiced with a joy so triumphant that it bore down all His anguish before it. The sacrifice was stainless, perfect, finished! 'He cried with a loud voice Tetelestai! and gave up the ghost. This divine self-satisfaction appears only twice, once in each Testament.
'The Finished Work of Christ! 'Tetelestai! Tetelestai! 'It is finished! It is not a sigh of relief at having reached the end of things. It is the unutterable joy of the artist who, putting the last touches to the picture that has engrossed him for so long, sees in it the realization of all his dreams and can nowhere find room for improvement.
To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. And, similarly, when He looked upon His work in Redemption and cried triumphantly 'Tetelestai, He placed it beyond the power of any man to add to it.
When some devout worshiper, overflowing with gratitude for mercies shown him, brought to the temple a lamb without spot or blemish, the pride of the whole flock, the priest, more accustomed to seeing the blind and defective animals led to the altar, would look admiringly upon the pretty creature. 'Tetelestai! he would say, 'tetelestai!
tetelestai the very word of Jesus Himself "It is finished " which may possibly have been fourth. He had by this time been on the cross for four hours or more.
When He completed the work of Creation, He looked upon it and said that it was very good; when He completed the work of Redemption He cried with a loud voice Tetelestai! It means exactly the same thing. The joy of finishing and of finishing well! How passionately good men have coveted for themselves that ecstasy! I think of those pathetic entries in Livingstone's journal.
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