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1. Messiah would be born of a woman. Old Testament Scripture. Gen. 3:15

   New Testament Fulfillment. Mat. 1:20; Gal. 4:4

Gen. 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

God spoke to the serpent (Gen. 3:14-15), to Eve (Gen. 3:16), and to Adam (Gen. 3:17-19). God’s words to the serpent included (a) the announcement that the snake, crawling and eating dust, would be a perpetual reminder to mankind of temptation and the Fall, and (b) an oracle about the power behind the snake. God said there would be a perpetual struggle between satanic forces and mankind. It would be between Satan and the woman, and their respective offspring or “seeds.” The “offspring” of the woman was Cain, then all humanity at large, and then Christ and those collectively in Him. The “offspring” of the serpent includes demons and anyone serving his kingdom of darkness, those whose “father” is the devil (John 8:44). Satan would cripple mankind (you will strike at his heel), but the Seed, Christ, would deliver the fatal blow (He will crush your head).

And I will put...

שׁית

shı̂yth

Definition:

1) to put, set

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to put, lay (hand upon)

1a2) to set, station, appoint, fix, set mind to

1a3) to constitute, make (one something), make like, perform

1a4) to take one’s stand

1a5) to lay waste

1b) (Hophal) to be imposed, be set upon

Part of Speech: verb

enmity...

איבה

'êybâh

Definition:

1) enmity, hatred

Part of Speech: noun feminine

between...

בּין

bêyn

Definition:

1) between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between

Part of Speech: substantive masculine (always used as a preposition)

thee (Satan) and the woman,... Parenthesis mine.

נשׁים / אשּׁה

'ishshâh / nâshı̂ym

      woman / wife

Definition:

1) woman, wife, female

1a) woman (opposite of man)

1b) wife (woman married to a man)

1c) female (of animals)

1d) each, every (pronoun)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

and between... see above.

thy (Satan) seed...

זרע

zera‛

Definition:

1) seed, sowing, offspring

1a) a sowing

1b) seed

1c) semen virile

1d) offspring, descendants, posterity, children

1e) of moral quality

1e1) a practitioner of righteousness (figuratively)

1f) sowing time (by metonymy)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

and her (woman/ Eve) seed;...

זרע

zera‛

Definition:

1) seed, sowing, offspring

1a) a sowing

1b) seed

1c) semen virile

1d) offspring, descendants, posterity, children

1e) of moral quality

1e1) a practitioner of righteousness (figuratively)

1f) sowing time (by metonymy)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

it... (Christ)

היא / הוּא

hû' / hı̂y'

Definition:

1) he, she, it (pronoun third person singular)

1a) himself (with emphasis)

1b) resuming subject with emphasis

1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate)

1d) (anticipating subject)

1e) (emphasizing predicate)

1f) that, it (neuter)

2) that (with article) (demonstrative pronoun)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

shall bruise...

שׁוּף

shûph

Definition:

1) to bruise, crush, gape upon, desire?, seize?, strike out?

1a) (Qal) to fall upon, bruise

Part of Speech: verb

thy (Satan) head,...

ראשׁ

rô'sh

Definition:

1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning

1a) head (of man, animals)

1b) top, tip (of mountain)

1c) height (of stars)

1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest)

1e) head, front, beginning

1f) chief, choicest, best

1g) head, division, company, band

1h) sum

Part of Speech: noun masculine

and thou (Satan)...

אתּה / אתּנּה / אתּנה / אתּן / אתּם / אתּי / את / אתּ

'attâh / 'attâ / 'ath / 'attı̂y / 'attem / 'atten / 'attênâh / 'attênnâh

Definition:

1) you (second person singular masculine)

Part of Speech: personal pronoun

shalt bruise... see above.

his (mankind) heel...

עקּבה / עקב

‛âqêb / ‛iqqebâh

Definition:

1) heel, rear, footprint, hinder part, hoof, rear of a troop, footstep

1a) heel

1b) mark of heel, footprint

1c) hinder part, rear

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Mat. 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

Mary and Joseph were in the one-year waiting period when Mary was found to be with child. They had never had sexual intercourse and Mary herself had been faithful (Mat. 1:20, 1:23). While little is said about Joseph, one can imagine how his heart must have broken. He genuinely loved Mary, and yet the word came that she was pregnant. His love for her was demonstrated by his actions. He chose not to create a public scandal by exposing her condition to the judges at the city gate. Such an act could have resulted in Mary’s death by stoning (Deu. 22:23-24). Instead he decided to divorce her quietly.

Then in a dream (cf. Mat. 2:13, 2:19, 2:22), an angel told Joseph that Mary’s condition was not caused by a man, but through the Holy Spirit (Mat. 1:20; cf. 1:18). The Child Mary carried in her womb was a unique Child, for He would be a Son whom Joseph should name Jesus for He would save His people from their sins. These words must have brought to Joseph’s mind the promises of God to provide salvation through the New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-37). The unnamed angel also told Joseph that this was in keeping with God’s eternal plan, for the Prophet Isaiah had declared 700 years before that the virgin will be with Child (Mat. 1:23; Isa. 7:14). While Old Testament scholars dispute whether the Hebrew almâh should be rendered “young woman” or “virgin,” God clearly intended it here to mean virgin (as implied by the Gr. word parthenos). Mary’s miraculous conception fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy, and her Son would truly be Immanuel… God with us. In light of this declaration Joseph was not to be afraid to take Mary into his home (Mat. 1:20). There would be misunderstanding in the community and much gossip at the well, but Joseph knew the true story of Mary’s pregnancy and God’s will for his life.

Gal. 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Illustration of the doctrine

1. A Legal Illustration

To illustrate the spiritual immaturity of those who lived under the Mosaic Law, Paul reminded the Galatian believers of certain characteristics of an heir as a minor child (nēpios, “infant, young child”; in contrast with huios, “son,” in Gal. 3:7, 3:26). Though by birthright he owned the whole estate, nevertheless he was kept in subservience like a slave in that he enjoyed no freedom and could make no decisions. In fact the heir as a child was under guardians (epitropous, different from the paidagōgos in Gal. 3:24-25) who watched over his person, and trustees who protected his estate. This was true until he came of age as a son, an age that varied in the Jewish, Grecian, and Roman societies. Under Roman law the age of maturity for a child was set by his father and involved a ceremonial donning of the toga virilis and his formal acknowledgment as son and heir.