Christ Jesus our Lord’ (Eph 3:11), to explain the meaning of the creation of mankind and the choice of one people whose ancestors were guided by God to found a nation which might become the Divine instrument for the salvation of mankind, as expressed in the repeated promise to Abraham, ‘In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.’ .—An explanation of the ‘documentary hypothesis’ with a description of the sources J, E and P used by the compiler of Genesis
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