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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean
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Besides this wonderful agreement between the types and the things typified, the adversary may be convinced by plain prophetic intimations, such as this: "In thy seed shall all nations be blessed." This was said to Abraham, 1 and again to Isaac, 2 and again to Jacob. 3 Hence the significance of the words "I am the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob." 4 God fulfills His promise to their seed in blessing all nations. With a like significance, Abraham himself, when he made his servant swear, told him to put his hand under his thigh; 5 for he knew that thence would come the flesh of Christ, in whom we have now, not the promise of blessing to all nations, but the promise fulfilled.
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Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres
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Nobis autem quisquis dixerit non ideo alia (illa?) vel gesta vel scripta, ut Christus in eis intellegatur, excepta ipsa tanta consonantia rerum praefiguratarum et nunc impletarum aliis praesagiis propheticis apertis manifestique ferietur, sicuti est illud: In semine tuo benedicentur omnes gentes. p. 367,14 Hoc dictum est ad Abraham, hoc ad Isaac, hoc ad Iacob. Unde non immerito dicit: Ego sum deus Abraham et deus Isaac et deus Iacob, completurus utique in benedictione omnium gentium, quod ex eorum semine promisit. Nec immerito ipse Abraham, cum eius servus ei iurasset, sub femore suo iussit eum ponere manum, sciens inde venturam carnem Christi, in quo benedici omnes gentes non nunc praenuntiamus, sed quod tunc praenuntiatum est, nunc videmus.