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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
In what way, then, can the law annul this covenant, agreement, and promise, so that the nations would receive blessing not in Christ but through the commandments of the law? For this would be nothing other than the overthrow of the promise, which is absurd.
Oecumenius
"Now this I say: a covenant." For the sake of clarity he continues the discourse. "by God in Christ." For the promise was to Christ. For he said, "In your seed all the nations shall be blessed." For this is, "in you." And the seed of Abraham according to the flesh is Christ. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, "Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God," he draws his conclusion. Here let us see, in order, what it is that he says. He says therefore that this is what God promised to Abraham. But this is a "testament," i.e., a promise that he would obtain an inheritance: "I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Juda" (Jer 31:31). …
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