But God has thereby unveiled his faithfulness to the covenant, the covenant with Abraham and Israel through which he always purposed to put the whole creation right at last. God’s creation has been spoiled by human idolatry and sin, and even his chosen people have appeared unable to do anything about it. But now (that’s one of Paul’s favorite phrases, for example, in Romans 3:21) God has revealed that what his covenant purposes had always involved was the “putting forth” of Jesus the Messiah as the means of establishing a new reality, a single family whose sins are forgiven, a Jew-plus-Gentile
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