members of a family (1 Tim. 5:1). Christ recreates us (Eph. 4:24), bringing us into a new human community, the people of God (Eph. 2:19). There can only be one people belonging to God, because there is only one Christ. Obviously this oneness works in a different way before the Incarnation and the Resurrection. It can have only a preliminary and shadowy form until Christ’s work is actually accomplished. But we cannot think of the Old Testament people of God as a second people of God alongside the