covenants linked to them, but also because of the history of miracles. Simultaneously, this is not
predominantly about physical descendants but about progeny and succession in faith and in God’s gift of mercy (the fathers of the Believers).
“Because the Old Testament, wherein the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ is already concealed – because of
God’s general will to redeem us - (it being but a very small part of mankind’s history) , represents each successive prehistory of incarnation (which is but a tiny part of the history of mankind)
.these patriarchs are interpreted in the Bible already as “Christian”, and as the Fathers of and paradigms for our Faith (compare Romans 4, 17,2 and Corinthians 10, 1-12, Hebrews 11 etc.) on whose
doctrine of salvation our historical existence still “rests”.
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