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NASB | Acts 3:25 "It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 3:25 "You are the sons (descendants) of the prophets and [heirs] of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'AND IN YOUR SEED (descendant) ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.' [Gen 22:18; Gal 3:16] |
Subject: Through Christ Alone |
Bible Note: “There are two remaining points: that the Old Testament fathers (1) had Christ as pledge of their covenant, and (2) put in Him all trust of future blessedness. . . . Let us, therefore, boldly establish a principle unassailable by any stratagem of the devil: the old Testament or covenant that the Lord had made with the Israelites had not been limited to earthly things, but contained a promise of spiritual and eternal life. The expectation of this mast have been imbued upon the hearts of all who truly consented to the covenant. But away with this insane and dangerous opinion – that the Lord promised the Jews, or that they sought for themselves, nothing but a full belly, delights of the flesh, flourishing wealth, outward power, fruitfulness of offspring, and whatever the natural man prizes. Christ the Lord promises to His followers today no other 'Kingdom of Heaven' than that in which they may 'sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Peter declared that the Jews of his day were heirs of the grace of the gospel because they were the 'sons of the prophets, included in the covenant which the Lord of old made with His people' (Acts 3:25). … In this He [Lord] has given a sure pledge that whatever He did or suffered in acquiring eternal salvation pertains to the believers of the Old Testament as much as to ourselves.” --John Calvin (1509-1564), from “Institutes of the Christian Religion” |
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