On this day, five years ago, this is how I closed off the comments of thanksgiving prefacing the doctoral thesis on Genesis 3,15. I call the conversion of Saint Paul (today’s feast), the reception of the enmity as described in Genesis 3,15:
Rome – 25 January 2007
Feast of the reception of enmity by Saul of Tarsus
וַיְמַהֵר וַיִּקְרָא בְּבָתֵּי כְנֵסִיּוֹת אֶת־יֵשׁוּעַ לֵאמֹר כִּי־הוּא בֶּן־הָאֱלֹהִים הוּא ׃ (Acts 9,20)
Saint Paul understands Genesis 3,15. That’s why the more knuckleheaded of the past 60 years of commentary say, on Romans 5,12, utterly ignores Genesis. Interesting, no? So afraid of the truth. This is a mortal sin in Exegesis. If one part of scripture clearly explicitly commenting on another part of scripture, one has to take a look at that other part of Scripture, no? But, nope. It’s not done. I’ll try to rectify that with a popular version of thesis, where I mentioned this difficulty. This is very much what Holy Souls Hermitage is all about. See the My Books page. Yikes!
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
I’m sure I should be seeing great spiritual things in this painting of the conversion of St. Paul, but my very favorite thing is the merciful action of the horse! See the effort this good horse is making, to not step on his rider who has fallen off. He’s holding his hoof up as long as necessary until they can move St. Paul out from under him. As you would say: “goodness and kindness”… even in God’s creatures!