Catechesis Pro Advltioribvs Scripta, De his potissimum capitibus

by his own nature and mere goodness and grace, he promises us the most excellent goods of both this present life and the future one. For the divine promise is twofold, since one belongs to spiritual things, and the other truly to corporal things. The spiritual [promise] pertains to celestial goods and those of the future life, to the soul of man and the restoration of his whole being. And it has these most powerful promises: "The seed of the woman shall crush the head of the serpent, etc." Likewise, "In your seed shall all nations be blessed, etc." And again, "And this is the testament that I will strike with them; I will be propitious to their iniquities, and I will not remember their sins anymore." Furthermore, the corporal promise revolves around the temporal goods of the present life, which are indeed multiple and various, such as health, form, strength, faculties, and countless others of this kind.

By a covenant God bound himself to men.

I. How else does the scriptura sancta Holy Scripture explain this salutary business of benevolence and friendship to us?
R. By the likeness of a pact or fœderis covenant. For just as men are connected among themselves by some very tight pact, so God has joined himself to men by an everlasting covenant.
I. With which men, I pray?
R. With Adamo Adam