seven brothers and their mother

A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.

The first woman, the first promise of a seed that would bruise the serpent, and the first funeral, read forward from Genesis 3 rather than backward from the Fall.

Seven times Jesus completes the sentence 'I am', bread, light, door, shepherd, resurrection, way, vine, each standing on an Old Testament picture.

The wife who laughed at the promise, was twice passed off as a sister, and is the only woman whose age at death Scripture records.

Asia Minor, late 1st century. Seven cities along a clockwise postal route — Ephesus to Laodicea — each receiving a letter from the risen Christ. Praises, rebukes, promises. A Matt-13 parallel…