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The Posterity Of Jesus In John Wifall's The Awakening
These writings principally depict the adversaries of the offspring of the woman being put under his feet as noted in (Mathew 22:44 and the counterparts like; Acts 2:35; 1 Corinthian 15:25; Ephesian 1:20–22; Hebrew 14–15). Wifall additionally takes note of the pertinence of the way that Jesus is named as being conceived of (i.e., the posterity of) the lady (Gal 4:4) and the posterity of David (2 Timothy

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