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| Chapter XXII. How it was that God foretold to Abraham that Israel would have to drive out ten nations.
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Chapter XXII.
How it was that God foretold to Abraham that Israel
would have to drive out ten nations.
When the Lord was
speaking with Abraham about the future (a point which you did not ask
about) we find that He did not enumerate seven nations, but ten, whose
land He promised to give to his seed.1356
And this number is plainly made up by adding idolatry, and blasphemy,
to whose dominion, before the knowledge of God and the grace of
Baptism, both the irreligious hosts of the Gentiles and blasphemous
ones of the Jews were subject, while they dwelt in a spiritual Egypt.
But when a man has made his renunciation and come forth from thence,
and having by God’s grace conquered gluttony, has come into the
spiritual wilderness, then he is free from the attacks of these three,
and will only have to wage war against those seven which Moses
enumerates.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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