Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
God raised up his Son and sent him first to you:
The Lord had come to his own and among his own, awaiting the first fruits of faith from those people he took his roots from. The others subsequently had to be saved by the preaching of the apostles.
God raised up his Son and sent him first to you:
He was sent first to Israel, so that when many of them would not receive the Gospel, the passing over to the Gentiles might have just cause.
