saying, master, Moses has left it us in writing, that if a man dies, and leaves his wife without any children, his brother should marry his widow, in order to perpetuate his name.

which he promised to our forefathers, to Abraham, and to his posterity for ever."

hath not the scripture said, that the Messiah is to rise out of the family of David, and out of Bethlehem, the village where David was born?

but it is the Jew, who is so inwardly, and it is the circumcision of the heart, according to the spiritual, not the literal sense, which have the approbation, I do not say of men, but of God.

You will say then, hath God discarded his people? by no means. for I my self am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

so hence ye know, that it is they who believe who are the children of Abraham.

now to Abraham and his offspring were the promises made. he does not say, "to offsprings," as if he spoke of many; but as speaking of one, "and to thy offspring," which means Christ.

there is now no distinction of Jew or Greek, of bond or free, of male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

as many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, even upon the Israel of God.

whosoever is born of God, does not commit sin; for the divine principle remaineth in him: he will not sin, because he is born of God.