sessions.
Therefore I must not boast that I convert men, but it must all be
ascribed to the Lord Christ. It is the same also with all the other
figures of the Old Testament, which it would be too tedious to
specify.

But all in the Old Testament which is not external, is still in
force, as all those passages in the prophets concerning faith and
love. Wherefore Christ also confirms it in Mat. vii.: "All things
whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to
them; for this is the law and the prophets." Besides, Moses and the
prophets testify of the Christ that was to come. As, when I preach of
Christ that He is the only Saviour by whom all must be saved, I may
quote to sustain me the passage in Gen. xxii.: "In thy seed shall all
nations be blessed." Thence I draw a living voice and language.
Through Christ, who is Abraham's seed, must all men be blessed. From
that it follows, that we were all cursed and condemned in Adam;
wherefore it is necessary that we should believe on the Seed, if we
would escape condemnation. Out of such passages may we lay down the
ground of our faith, and let it remain, that we may therein see how
they bear witness of Christ, so that our faith may be strengthened
thereby. That is what St. Peter intends now by these words, in which
he says:

V. 10. _Of which Salvation the Prophets have searched and inquired
diligently, who have prophesied of the grace that should come to
you._ In this same manner Paul also speaks, toward the close of the
Epistle to the Romans, of the revelation of the mystery which was
hidden from all ages of the world, but is now revealed and made known
through the writings of the prophets. And so you find in the New
Testament many passages quoted from the prophets, by which the
Apostles show that all has been fulfilled just as the prophets
foretold.

This Christ Himself proves from the prophet Isaiah, Mat. xi.: "The
blind see, the lame walk," &c. As though He had said, just as it was
written there it is taking place now; so also we read in Acts ix., of
Paul, and in the xviii., of Apollos, how they confounded the Jews,
and convinced them out of Scripture that this was the Christ. For
whatever the prophets had foretold, all had now come to pass in
Christ. So (Acts xv.) the Apostles show how the Gospel must be
preached to the heathen that they might believe. This has also come
to pass, and been put in train, so that the Jews might be convinced
and compelled