NT Text: Acts 3:25
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Typology (Direct Type, Forward-Looking)
Anchor Text: Gen 22:18 — In Your Offspring All Nations
Significance: Peter's quotation in Acts 3:25 — "In your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed" (en tō spermati sou eneulogēthēsontai pasai hai patriai tēs gēs) — matches the LXX of Gen 22:18 more closely than Gen 12:3, with the specific word spermati ("in your seed/offspring") that is the crux of Paul's argument in Gal 3:16 (the singular spermati = Christ). Gen 22:18 is the climactic form of the Abrahamic promise, given immediately after the near-sacrifice of Isaac — the episode that typologically anticipates the Father's actual sacrifice of the Son. Peter's use of Gen 22:18 is therefore doubly significant: the promise of universal blessing through the "seed" is fulfilled in the one who, like Isaac, was delivered up to death and received back (cf. Heb 11:19), and this fulfillment is now being preached to the same people who handed over the Son (Acts 3:13), yet to whom the blessing is offered first (3:26).