(As he promised to our forefathers) For Abraham and his race for ever."

This was the oath which he swore to our forefather Abraham--

Let your lives, then, prove your repentance; and do not begin to say among yourselves 'Abraham is our ancestor,' for I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!

Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, Terah, Nahor,

But this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who has been kept in bondage by Satan for now eighteen years, ought not she to have been released from her bondage on the Sabbath?"

There, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Prophets, in the Kingdom of God, while you yourselves are being driven outside.

After a time the beggar died, and was taken by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.

In the Place of Death he looked up in his torment, and saw Abraham at a distance and Lazarus at his side.

So he called out 'Pity me, Father Abraham, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering agony in this flame.'

'Child,' answered Abraham, 'remember that you in your lifetime received what you thought desirable, just as Lazarus received what was not desirable; but now he has his consolation here, while you are suffering agony.

'They have the writings of Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham; 'let them listen to them.'

'But, Father Abraham,' he urged, 'if some one from the dead were to go to them, they would repent.'

'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets,' answered Abraham, 'they will not be persuaded, even if some one were to rise from the dead.'"

"Salvation has come to this house to-day," answered Jesus, "for even this man is a son of Abraham.

As to the fact that the dead rise, even Moses indicated that, in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord--'The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'