 It is finished. When a worker would return to his boss after being given an assignment, a job to do, he would come back and tell his boss, Tetelestai, I've done what you asked me to do. And maybe the most importantly, this was also a banking term. And when a person would fully pay off his debt, the banker would hand him a receipt with the word Tetelestai printed across the front of it. It is paid in full.