The Progenitors
(Patriarchs, Era of Sovereigns)
 

Patriarch = Progenitor (Greek: Arch-Fathers, Fathers of the Conception).

Thus the prodigious characters of the chronicles of salvation of the Old Testament are named Abraham, Moses, Isaac right up to the sons of Jacob (compare Acts of the Apostles 7,8).  King David too may be counted amongst them (Acts of the Apostles 2,29). The Bible chronicles as patriarchs in the general sense the first leaders of the peoples of Israel who are described genealogically as being related  to each other.
The chronicles of these peoples reach back in part to the early second millennium B.C., and have been preserved  in a multifarious, theological and concurrent version in the Pentateuch of the Genesis. The authors of these chronicles are recognized as being the founding fathers of the tribes and of the religion, and were only brought into a blood relationship much later.  The patriarchs are significant from a religious aspect not only for their placement at the beginning of the Bible and the circumstance that fundamental 

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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”.