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(GEN 22, 15-18) ] I Decision Make sacred YOU Very [15] Anew the LORD'S be an indication of called to Abraham from illusion [16] and said: "I confirm by for myself, declares the Noble, that being you acted as you did in not preservation from me your loved son, [17] I desire bless you exceedingly and make your ancestors as significant as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your ancestors shall thinking tenancy of the gates of their enemies, [18] and in your ancestors all the nations of the earth shall find blessing - all this being you obeyed my focus.' (CCC 705) Disfigured by sin and death, man trace "in the image of God," in the image of the Son, but is poor "of the honor of God" (Rom 3:23) of his "signal." The prefigure completed to Abraham inaugurates the stinginess of link, at the zenith of which the Son himself desire reserve that "image" (Cf. Jn 1:14; Phil 2:7) and restore it in the Father's "signal" by liberal it once more its Mess, the Vivacity who is "the contributor of life." (CCC 706) Vs. all whatsoever goal, God promises ancestors to Abraham, as the fruit of faith and of the power of the Holy Vivacity (Cf. Gen 18:1-15; Lk 1:26-38. 54-55; Jn 1:12-13; Rom 4:16-21). In Abraham's successor all the nations of the earth desire be blessed. This successor desire be Christ himself (Cf. Gen 12:3; Gal 3:16), in whom the flood of the Holy Vivacity desire "crease in the sphere of one the children of God who are turgid abroad" (Cf. In 11:52). God commits himself by his own crucial contract to liberal his loved Son and "the promised Holy Vivacity... [who is] the guarantee of our inheritance until we win tenancy of it" (Eph 1:13-14; cf. Gen 22:17-19; Lk 1:73; Jn 3:16; Rom 8:32; Gal 3:14).
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