As we saw, from Abraham through David, Yahweh pledged that he would be Israel’s God and Israel would be his special people. However, despite God’s fidelity, the covenant consistently came apart due to the people’s sin. What the first Christians discerned was that in Jesus the long-desired covenant was finally fulfilled, that divinity and humanity had indeed embraced, that God’s will and the will of faithful Israel had fallen, at last, into harmony. And this is precisely what, in their more philosophically accented language, the fathers of the Council of Chalcedon were saying.
