OC | Question 19

19. How do you come to know this?

The holy gospel tells me. God himself began to reveal the gospel already in Paradise;48 later, he proclaimed it by the holy patriarchs49 and prophets,50 and portrayed it by the sacrifices and other ceremonies of the law;51 finally, he fulfilled it through his own dear Son.52

^ 48. Gen. 3:15
^ 49. Gen. 22:18; 49:10
^ 50. Isa. 53; Jer. 23:5-6; Mic. 7:18-20; Acts 10:43; Heb. 1:1-2
^ 51. Lev. 1-7; John 5:46; Heb. 10:1-10
^ 52. Rom. 10:4; Gal. 4:4-5; Col. 2:17