Romans 4:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

I have

Hebrews 11:12

Before him

Romans 3:29

Who quickeneth

Calleth

2 Peter 3:8

General references

Galatians 4:28

Bible References

I have

so that even a single person whose vigour was gone, gave rise to a posterity as numerous as the stars of the sky, or the sands on the sea-shore, which cannot be numbred.

Before him

is God the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? surely he is of the Gentiles too;

Who quickeneth

for if Abraham was justified by works, he had matter of pretension, whereas he had no such claim from God.

for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

and don't pretend to say within your selves, We have Abraham for our father: for I tell you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham:

for as the father raiseth up the dead, and restores them to life: even so the son gives life to whom he will.

it is the action of the mind that vivifies, that of the body profits nothing: the words that I have delivered to you, spiritually understood, give life.

and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.

When you were in that destructive state of transgression and sin,

I enjoin you, before God, who gives life to all, and before Christ Jesus, who made a glorious confession before Pontius Pilate;

Calleth

for whom he before approv'd, he predispos'd to follow the example of his son, who was to conduct them all as their elder brother;

and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called, the children of the living God."

he that does all these things, is the Lord himself that has said it." for the works of God are all known to him from the beginning of the world.

those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing.

'Twas by faith that Noah being divinely warned of unforeseen events, with a religious concern built an ark to the preservation of his family; whereby the world became inexcusable, and he obtained the reward of that righteousness which is by faith.

of darkness into his marvellous light: you, who formerly were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy,

But there is one thing, my brethren, you ought to be appriz'd of, which is this, that "with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

General references

Now we, my brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise.