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'The promise of the Spirit
through faith'


"That the blessing of Avraham
might come upon the Gentiles through Yeshua haMashiach,
and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith."



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PAUL
here, as elsewhere,
spiritualizes and allegorizes the notion
of kinship.


If for rabbinic Jews
the crucial signifier is actual,
physical descent from Avraham {Ibrahim},
for Paul, it is descent from Avraham according to the spirit,
which is constitued by entry
into the faith community
of Christ.


HE equates
the promise made to Avraham
that Sarah would bear Yitschak to Avraham's spiritual paternity of Yehoshua, "the seed" to whom the promise was made,
and through Yeshua,
the seed of all
who believe.


THUS
the exegetical notion
that the blessing is for the descendents of Avraham
by the 'promise' and not to those who are his descendents
'by the flesh' is fulfilled in time by "G*D"
through sending of the Messianic seed
through which the promise
was made.


THE
fulfillment of the promise is, however,
through the participation of the people in the spirit which has been
offered them by Christ's
crucifixion.


ENTERING
into the spirit,
by participating themselves in the experience and commitment
of the crucifixion and resurrection,
constitutes acceptance of the gift and thus entering
into the descent by the promise,
the type of which was the birth of Yitschak through the promise
and NOT by natural
carnal means.


INDEED,
it is not so much Avraham
who is the type of Christ but Yitschak.
"G*D" offers adoption as spiritual children
through the sacrifice of his son,
but people either accept it
or reject it.


THEY
accept it
by allowing
the gifts of the spirit into
their hearts.


If they reject it
by going back to the works of the Law,
implying thereby that only physical descent or physical adoption
into the Jewish family saves,
THEN Christ died on the cross
in vain.


AS ABC put IT so precisely
at the end of the nineteenth century,
"According to the [Yerushalayim apostles],
it is in vain
to be a Christian without being a Jew also.
According to [Paul],
it is in vain to be a Christian if,
as a Christian,
one chooses to be a Jew
as well!"


In GAL
Paul is supporting the connection
between the allegorical theory of the Law
and christology.


The two
misdrashim together
provide the
argument.


The Law itself
has already informed us
of its own dual nature
by telling us that anyone who remains
with the physical level of
'doing the Law'
has NOT fulfilled
the Law.


THIS is THEN
followed by the midrashic argument
that anyone who merely does the Law
is NOT living by faith,
which alone justifies,
and finally that Christ
through his crucifixion
has revealed
the true meaning of the Law, namely,
that its material signifier is to be replaced
by its spiritual
signified.


In the next section
Paul will turn to the third aspect of the triad,
the question of physical descent and genealogy,
which he will also read in accord with
the allegorical
structure.

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engel

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