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Galatians 4:4–5

In the fullness of time

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Galatians 4:4–5

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4:4But when the fullness of time arrived, God sent his Son, formed from a woman, formed under the law

4:5so that he might redeem those who were under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption of sons

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Genesis 3:15 — The seed of the woman

The first promise after the fall is that the woman's offspring will crush the serpent. Paul says that when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman. The Church reads Mary and Christ as that line coming due.

source checked395 yearsEven if Genesis reached its present form only after the exile, the promise still sat on the page for centuries before the Annunciation.
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