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GENESIS
being the son of Abraham according to the flesh; for the
promise was; “In Isaac shall thy seed be called,” and he
was the child of promise and of faith. The Christian is
the child of promise and of faith, and hence is reckoned
through Isaac as a special creation of God, and is, there-
fore, himself a new creation. The last creation supersedes
all former ones, and by this supersession abrogates them.
The adoption of the children of Abraham as the special
and peculiar people of God, set aside the adoption by crea-
tion, and during the time of their adoption, the natural
adoption was set aside, and the rest of mankind ignored,
and treated as an uncovenanted people. So when the
Christian adoption came in, the Jewish was set aside, and
all the rest of mankind, not embraced in the new adoption,
were ignored and treated as uncovenanted. Hence, under
Christianity there is neither Jew nor Greek; neither circum-
cision nor uncircumcision; but all the families, nations,
and races of mankind are one in Christ, in perfect ful-
fillment of the promise: rrIyt thee shall all the families of
the earth be blessed.”
All this is necessarily true.
The Remedial System
is developed by differentiations which mark the boundaries
of the development. The patriarch had no privileges,
special and peculiar, after the calling of Abraham. By
that call God isolated a part from the whole, and made
this part his special care. By the new creation through
Christ another isolation was made, which placed Jew and
Greek on the same plane before God, and abrogated all
special and peculiar rights or privileges claimed by the
Jews.
This is necessarily true from another consideration.
The claim of the Jew rested on an explicit covenant. That
covenant recognized him as the chosen of God, through a
means wholly different from that by which he had recognized
the patriarch, and dQes now recognize the Christian.
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