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In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
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The 'Seed' is Christ
Commentators unanimously identify the singular "seed" as a direct reference to the Messiah, Jesus Christ. They often cite Galatians 3:16, where the Apostle Paul makes this same point. The promise that 'all the nations' would be blessed through this seed is seen as the foundation of the gospel's global mission, guaranteeing that salvation through Christ is for all people, not just one ethnic group.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
2. מריה morı̂yâh — “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה môr'âh; Septuagint, ὑψηλή hupsēlē — Onkelos, “w…
19th Century
Baptist
For because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son: that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I wi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And in your seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed , &c.] That is, in his one and principal seed, the Messia…
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