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verifiedGenesis 3:15
3:15I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.
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Galatians 4:4–5 — In the fullness of time
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.
Sources & review
- scriptureGen 3:15
- scriptureGal 4:4-5
- scriptureLuke 1:26-35
- catechismCCC 410-411
- church fatherBook V, chapter 21, section 1