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God's Promises to Abram echo down through the corridors of time as we study Genesis 12:2-3. Anyone, believer or non-believe, rich or poor, who blesses the Jewish people through kindness and mercy, will please God. The scriptural principle will never change. As the church worldwide, we need to see the importance of how we touch the apple of God's eye. Let us forfeit no more blessings by ignoring God's promise to bless. If the original offshoot of biblical Judaism(Christianity), which sprang from the original olive tree (Israel) would begin to allow itself to be grafted back into its roots, spiritual blessings will come to congregations across the world. Christians do not have to become Jewish to love the Jewish people but only what God loves. They simply need to be a blessing.
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One of the chief purposes of the commentary is to set forth the reason that led the Committee, or a majority of the members of the Committee, to adopt certain variant readings for inclusion in the text and to relegate certain others readings to the apparatus. On the basis of a record of the voting of the Committee, as well as, for most sessions, more or less full notes of the discussions that proceeded the voting, the present writer has sought to frame and express concisely (a) the main problem or the problem involved in each set of variants and (b) the Committees 's evaluation and resolution of those problems.