develops at great length in Romans). By removing the curse-threat, God brings Jew and Gentile together in Christ to die to this world and be delivered as a new creation out of this present evil age. All the children of the “father of many nations” must be included, so the freeing of the Jews opened the gate for Gentile justification. The law’s purpose was to mitigate for a select group the problem of the worldwide reign of sin. This group was the seed-line through whom the seed-heir