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# If the firstfruits are holy, so is the lump of dough
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"If Abraham is counted as the first of what has been offered to God, all of our ancestors who followed should also be counted as God's possession"
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# firstfruits
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The people always dedicated to God the first crops that they harvested. Here "firstfruits" stands for the first people to believe in Christ.
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# If the root is holy, so are the branches
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Paul is speaking of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Israelites' ancestors, as if they were the root of a tree, and the Israelites, who are descendants of those men, as if they were the tree's "branches."
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