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The apostle Paul lived within a swirl of controversy. False Christians—Judaizers—dogged his every step, slandering his motives, denying his apostolic authority, and seeking to overthrow his Gospel teaching. They argued their case loudly, and Paul knew that he must give the literary performance of his life. The result was the Epistle to the Romans, in which he demonstrates the truth of his...

“You shall be the father of a multitude of nations” (Gen. 17:5), and promised that Abraham’s descendants would be as numberless as the stars (Gen. 22:17), He meant not merely that Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, and Esau were to have many descendants. The thought here is spiritual and cosmic, not narrowly national. God meant that all earth’s families were to be blessed in Abraham (Gen. 12:3) and that all nations were to look to him as their father. That is why St. Paul characterizes God’s promise to Abraham
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