Salvation History
The narrative unity of Scripture as the history of God's plan for the world, from creation through the patriarchs, the formation of the people of God, the prophets, the coming of Christ, his death and resurrection, the apostolic mission, and the founding of the Church -- all oriented toward Christ as the center.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— Religion is the first among human things and must have a history that is first; Jesus Christ holds in the annals of the world a place no conqueror, philosopher, or lawgiver could attain.
"No matter how deeply one digs into antiquity or descends again to modern ages, nothing appears with the character of our Scriptures, nor anything with the majesty of Jesus Christ."
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— The history of Jesus Christ is the history of heaven and earth, containing the plans of God, primordial laws, the succession of events, the directions of providence, prophecies, and above all the figure of Christ illuminating everything.
"The history of Jesus Christ is the history of heaven and earth. There must be found the plans of God for the world, the primordial and universal laws, the beginnings of races"
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— Scripture announces the Savior from the first page under the shades of paradise; the promise transmitted to patriarchs gains clarity from book to book, through David, the prophets, captivity, the rebuilding of the temple, through to Simeon's canticle and the coming of Christ.
"From the very first page, under the stirring shades of the earthly paradise, it announces to us the coming of the Savior of men. This promise, transmitted to the patriarchs, takes on from book to book a clarity that fills all events and drives them toward the future"
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— All times meet in Christ: the Gospel succeeds the law and the prophecies; truth, fulfilling the figure, shines upon the past.
"Jesus Christ has come. The Gospel succeeds the law and the prophecies, and truth, fulfilling the figure, shines upon the past, which it explains after having received its testimony. All times meet in Christ, and history takes under His steps its eternal unity."
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— The three periods: prophetic, evangelical, and apostolic times distributed across four thousand years.
"The history of Jesus Christ is thus divided into three periods distributed across four thousand years: the prophetic times, the evangelical times, and the apostolic times."
Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses
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Argumentum
— The Pentateuch as a chronicle of the world, tracing creation through the patriarchs to the death of Moses
"The Pentateuch, that is, this fivefold volume of Moses, is a chronicle of the world."
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Sacred Chronology
— The Sacred Chronology presents a synopsis from Adam to Christ
"Sacred Chronology"
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Sacred Chronology
— Christ's birth fixed as AM 3950, the culmination of sacred chronology
"Christ therefore was born in the year of the world 3950."