Jacob’s journey to Mesopotamia: his vision and vow.
“And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place.” (Genesis 28:11)
The stone which Jacob rested on prefigured Christ.
“And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.” (Genesis 28:17)
Jacob shows such honor and fear of God.
“And Jacob, arising in the morning, took the stone, which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.” (Genesis 28:18)
The mystery of Christ’s incarnation is the mark of our redemption and our entire existence.
“The stone under Jacob’s head is the Lord, upon whom we ought to support ourselves with all our concentration, the more so insofar as it is surely clear to us that without him we can do nothing. Jacob anointed the stone and set it up as a mark, because a true Israelite understands that our Redeemer was anointed by the Father with the oil of gladness above his fellows. From this ointment (that is, chrism) Christ received his name, and the mystery of his incarnation is the mark of our redemption. It is good that when the stone was anointed on the earth and raised up as a mark, the Lord was revealed in heaven, for undoubtedly he appeared in time as a man among men while he remained eternal with God the Father. When death was overcome ‘he ascended over the heaven of heavens to the east,’ remaining with us as a mark of our salvation ‘for all days, up to the consummation of the world.’ He who transferred the body he had assumed from earth to heaven was the One who filled earth, and heaven as well, with the presence of deity.” (4) -St. Bede
Catechism of the Catholic Church 706 states: Against all human hope, God promises descendants to Abraham, as the fruit of faith and of the power of the Holy Spirit. In Abraham’s progeny all the nations of the earth will be blessed. This progeny will be Christ himself, in whom the outpouring of the Holy Spirit will “gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.” God commits himself by his own solemn oath to giving his beloved Son and “the promised Holy Spirit. .. [who is] the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it.”
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