A father of many nations (πατερα πολλων εθνων). Quotation from Ge 17:5. Only true in the sense of spiritual children as already ex…

As it is written (Genesis 17:5).

I have made you. The word used here in the Hebrew (Genesis 17:5) …

Before him.—Rather, in the presence of. These words are to be connected closely with those which precede the parenthesis:…

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end …

The thought moves on to consider that Abraham’s justification was apart from any law or legal considerations. Paul speaks of a promise received by …

Whom he believed, who quickens the dead, etc. In this circuitous form is expressed the very substance of Abraham’s faith, so that…

As it is written I have made you a father of many nations ,
&c.] The passage referred to, is in ([Reference Genesis …

The promise was made to Abraham long before the law. It points to Christ, and it refers to the promise in Genesis 12:3: In Thee shall all famil…

1. After showing that the promise made to Abraham and his seed was not to be fulfilled through the law, the Apostle now shows that it is to …