Galatians 3:16: The Singular Seed

Full Gal 3:15–29. Paul: "He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." Zera can carry collective or individual force; Paul reads it individually, tracking a messianic-singular reading already present in rabbinic sources (Bereshit Rabbah 23). The steelman against Paul: this is a collective noun being pressed into a singular-person argument, and critics call the move Second-Temple midrash rather than plain grammar.