(which He had promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures),

whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;

and being fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was also able to perform.

But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come;

And not only this, but when Rebekah also had conceived by one, by our father Isaac

(for the children had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who called,)

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory;

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."