Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:1-4
Ephesians 2:11-13 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
When a Gentile is saved he is taken in and included and is no longer an alien to Israel’s covenants promise. The covenants of promise was the new convenant with its promises which the old covenant pointed to. This would be a spiritual connection.
So, in this sense the fathers in Israel are now our fathers for the purpose of Paul’s teaching. At least this is how I take it. He was talking to the Corinthians who were now saved and no longer Gentiles, “ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh.” Ergo, they are include in the our fathers and longer far off .
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