There is a real and significant continuity of a people constituted by the covenant. This binding of a people across time and generations is the same reality expressed in the communion of the saints. The later generation lives into specific possibilities because of what it has inherited from those who crossed the sea and wandered the wilderness. This continuity is real because of the enduring presence of the same God to whom all generations are connected, and also because habitualities are collective as well. Hopes are inherited; so are idolatries.
