''The kingdom of our Father'' refers to the kingdom of David in Mt 10:11. Thomas is equating the prophecy concerning the Kingdom of David with that of the Kingdom of Heaven/God. He is saying that David's kingdom is a type of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The ''seed of the woman'' is Christ when interpreted singularly, and the church when interpreted as being plural. The enemy is that old liar, the serpent.

We are reading the English text of a Greek manuscript written of a teaching that was done in Hebrew. We pull in the Hebrew words for the original weeds in Ge 3:18 [[קוץ]] thorns and [[דרדר]] thistles.

The subroot of [[קוץ]] means ''to irritate''. It is used in words like ''abomination'', ''wrath'', ''impatient'' and ''awake''. It is a fun riddle.

In Ge 38, Judah (a shadow of God) has three sons: Er, Onan and Shelah representing Adam, Israel (the nation) and Joseph, the husband of Mary. The story which follows is a shadow of the birth of Christ.

''Er' means ''awake'' and the verse says he was ''called Er'' or ''called awake''. Awake is the opposite of asleep. Asleep is used to say that someone is dead. And when you are dead you return to the dust. So Er was called Awake, or he was 'called alive from the dust' confirming that he represents Adam. The story goes on to say that he was killed because of sin, as was Adam.

In the story, he was made to be flesh from the dust. Paul further clarifies the riddle saying that he had a thorn in the flesh ([[2Co 12:7]]), confirming that the flesh itself is the thorn and crying out...

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:Ro 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

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