Galatians 3:16 · World English Bible
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.
The promise rests on a single seed, not a scattered many, and the point turns on that oneness. Abraham is faith, and his seed is what faith produces: one unified power rather than a crowd of separate efforts.
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The promise rests on a single seed, not a scattered many, and the point turns on that oneness. Abraham is faith, and his seed is what faith produces: one unified power rather than a crowd of separate efforts. Scattered wishing divides and cancels itself. One clear conviction gathers a person and bears fruit.
That single seed is named the awakened imagination, the concentrated feeling of the wish already fulfilled. A man does not reach his good through many hopes pulling in different directions. He reaches it through one assumption held whole. The promise was always to the one, because only an undivided state carries the force to become fact. Everything a person receives grows from a seed he planted as a single, settled belief.
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How many things am I half wanting instead of one thing wholly?
The sage holds to one thing and so is clear. Grasping at many, a person becomes scattered and arrives at none of them.
For the one whose mind is divided there is no steadiness, and without steadiness there is no peace. The undivided mind is what carries.
A mind trained on one thing is like a well aimed arrow. Scattered attention wobbles and falls short of everything.
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