The Incarnation in the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy)

[Sam Jer]

I am trying to think this through:

In the first five books of the scriptures, which places give the clearest indications that the one who is to come will be God, the God-man?

I will name the first one I thought of.

Exodus 34:6-10
[6] And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, [7] keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. [8] And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. [9] And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. [10] And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. (in Hebrew, "forgiving" is the same word as "to bear")

Both clear-cut quotations and longer explanations about what some passage or part of the Pentateuch is about are fine of course, as well as quotations from the prophets, psalms or new testament if it is commenting on some part of the pentateuch.

 

[Charles Johnson]

The Messiah is called "the seed of the woman" and "the seed of Abraham." Thus, he is a man, descended from Abraham.

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (Gen. 3:15)

"And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." (Gen. 17:8)

Paul interprets these words in Galatians 3:16, saying, "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."

In Gen. 49:10, it is clarified that this Messiah will not just be a descendant of Abraham, but of Judah in particular.

"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be."

Deut. 18:15 says he will be "a prophet from the midst of thee":

"The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;"

Ps. 8 says that the Messiah under whose feet all things were to be placed is a man:

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet."

This is interpreted of Christ in Hebrews chapter 1.

As for him also being God, Hebrews 1 makes the argument from the Old Testament quite clearly. One could cite Ps. 110:1, Ps. 45, Isaiah 7:14 (c.f. Mt. 1:23), Proverbs 8:22.

 

[Contra_Mundum]

Gen.4:1. Eve names Cain, because " I have gotten a man, the LORD."