| Joshua William Brooks - Religion - 1840 - 876 pages
...faith. — That it is of faith, that it might be by grace: • V. 14. to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed: not to that only which is...the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all." And again in the ninth chapter he argues, even as respects the seed of Abraham according to the flesh;... | |
| Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...faith that it might be by • Rom. ix. 2, 5. f Ro m- 1*• "-8. grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is...the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all."* The apostle having thus referred to that principle which proved that the admission of the believing... | |
| 1840 - 644 pages
...might lie U1 by grace ; " to the end the promise might be sure to all til- seed ; not to that nuly which is of the law, but to that also which is of...faith of Abraham ; ° who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is written, P ( have made thee a father of many nations,) t before him whom be believed,... | |
| Saint John Chrysostom - Bible - 1841 - 624 pages
...Tfterefore it is of faith, he says, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise* of God might be sure to all the seed : not to that only which is...the faith of Abraham ; who is the father of us all*. You see that it is not the Law only that faith established!, but the promise of God also that it will... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - Bible - 1841 - 472 pages
...and amen in Christ Jesus. It is of faith that it might be by grace, to the end that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is...the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. Our Saviour here, then, includes his believing people in every age, and pours out the largest and richest... | |
| Joshua William Brooks - Bible - 1841 - 364 pages
...righteousness of faith; and that it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to ALL the seed: not to that only which is...the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us ALL;" (verses 13 — 16;) and thus he is the father, not of the circumcision only, but of those also "who... | |
| Michael E. Evans - Ethnology - 1991 - 286 pages
...for the Church. "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is...of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)" Romans 4:16,17 "For ye are all the children of... | |
| Alfred Marshall - Bibles - 1992 - 834 pages
...transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might he by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is...the faith of Abraham: who is the father of us all. 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations.) before him whom he believed, even... | |
| Lewis Sperry Chafer - Religion - 1993 - 868 pages
...in Romans 4:16: "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is...the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all." Aside from Ishmael's line and the children of Keturah concerning whom there is no revealed divine purpose,... | |
| Jürgen Moltmann - Religion - 1993 - 346 pages
...'Therefore it is "of faith", that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure (jSe/Jawiv) to all the seed; not to that only which is of the...the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all' (Rom. 4.16). Promise would no longer be the promise of God, who quickens the dead and calls into being... | |
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