The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.
each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.