Xavier Léon-Dufour - Vocabulário de Teologia Biblica, Ed. Herder, 1965 (Pág. 313)“Generation”
The word generation, based on the sense of engendering, of procreation, tends to express the solidarity that unites people among themselves. As among us, this solidarity can group those who live in the same era (contemporaries);
but Hebrew adds a historical nuance to this sociological meaning: it is the solidarity of those who descend from the same family or the same race (offspring, lineage). With this word and the use of genealogies, the Bible seeks to emphasize
the solidarity of men in blessing or sin, from Adam to Christ and until the end of time.
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2. Free solidarity.
Man is heir to the blessing, but also to the sin of preceding generations (Mt 23:35ff.); there is a "perverse and misguided generation" (Dt 32:5), which Jesus recognizes in the lives of his contemporaries (Mt 12:39; 17:17), and especially in the Pharisees, whom he describes as viper-like offspring (Mt 12:34; 23:33). has the devil as its father (Jn 8:44-47), its hardening provokes weariness and the wrath of God (Heb 3:7-19 Ps 95:8-11). But belonging to this perverse generation is no longer fatal since Christ sent the Spirit for the remission of sins: one can "be saved from it" (Acts 2:40)
and belong to the generation of Abraham, the believer (Rom 4:11f),
be the "chosen generation" (1 Pet 2:9 Is 43:20) of those who believe in the Son of God and are born of God (Jn 1:12f 1 Jn 5:1).
There are, therefore, two generations or two "worlds", which are not unconnected, and the duty of Christians is to "become blameless and pure, children of God in the midst of a misguided and perverted generation, in a world where you may shine like lights, presenting the word of life" (Phil 2:15, Lk 16:8).
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