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What is the relationship between the Church and Israel? And how does that influence our understanding of the Old Testament? In Heirs of Promise, P. Chase Sears answers these questions by taking a biblical-theological approach to the book of Romans. He argues that Paul views the Church as the new Israel—not a replacement of Israel, but rather the continuation of Israel reconstituted in Christ. As...

this name to himself, nor did the early church ever call Jesus ‘Israel.’ ”47 The difficulty with Saucy’s position is that it goes precisely against Paul’s interpretation of Isaiah: Paul understands Jesus to be the true Israel promised in Isaiah who, by his sacrificial death, brought about salvation for both Jews and Gentiles (1:16; 10:9–13). In other words, Jesus is the Servant of the Lord whom God handed over “for us all” (ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν πάντων, 8:32), not just the nation Israel. Paul purposely
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