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Genesis 12:3

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Genesis 12:3 (WEB)

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Catechism · 3

I Believe

  • §145Article 1 · I BelieveRead at vatican.va

    “The Letter to the Hebrews, in its great eulogy of the faith of Israel's ancestors, lays special emphasis on Abraham's faith: "By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go."” — Catechism footnote: Heb 11:8; cf. Gen 12:1-4.

The Revelation of God

  • §59Article 1 · The Revelation of GodRead at vatican.va

    “"In you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed."” — Catechism footnote: Gen 17:5; 12:3 (LXX); cf. Gal 3:8

"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"

  • §706Article 8 · "I Believe in the Holy Spirit"Read at vatican.va

    “This progeny will be Christ himself,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 12:3; Gal 3:16.

Fathers and councils · 15

Irenaeus of Lyons

Eusebius of Caesarea

  • “The prophecy was in the following words: “And in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 3.

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  • “And there is also a work of his On Emigration,and one On the life of a Wise Man made perfect in Righteousness, or On unwritten Laws;and still further the work On Giants or On the Immutability of God,and a first, second, third, fourth and fifth book On the proposition, that Dreams according to Moses are sent by God.” — editor's note: περὶ ἀποικίας: De Migratione Abrahami. Upon Gen. xii. 1–6. The work is still extant, and is given by Mangey, I. 436–472. See Schürer, p. 844.

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Theodoret of Cyrus

  • “Orth.—When He brought him out of his father’s house, and ordered him to come into Palestine, did He not say to him “I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee, and in thy seed shall all families of the earth be blessed”?” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 3. The lxx. has ἐνευλογηθήσονται ἐν σοί. In Acts iii. 25, it is τῷ σπέρματί σου: in Gal. iii. 8, ἐν σοί

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Augustine of Hippo

Leo the Great

  • “And finding the promise of God who says to Abraham, “In thy seed shall all nations be blest,” to avoid all doubt as to the reference of this seed, he might have followed the Apostle when He says, “To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed.” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 3.

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Jerome

Tertullian

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  • Acts 3:25 takes up the words of Genesis 12:3 (10 words in common).

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