does not treat in generic terms of the serpents as a class or of womanhood in general as the latter statement does. Who is meant by the woman’s seed and the serpent’s seed as God goes on to say that he will establish enmity between them also? The promise is certainly intended for all of Eve’s descendants. Potentially the woman’s seed would therefore be all of Eve’s descendants. But when we think of the actual establishment of the enmity envisioned in this divine promise, only those of Eve’s descendants
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