as He promised our forefathers, Abraham and his descendants forever."

the oath which He swore to our forefather Abraham,

Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance that you profess, and do not even begin to say within yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can raise up descendants for Abraham even out of these stones.

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

And so was it not right for this woman, a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has for eighteen years kept bound, to be freed from this bond on the Sabbath?"

There you will weep and grind your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside.

One day the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to be Abraham's bosom companion, and the rich man too died and was buried.

And in Hades he looked up, in constant tortures as he was, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus his bosom companion.

So he called and said, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am ceaselessly tortured in this flame.'

But Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received in full your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus his hardships in his, but now he is continuously comforted here, while you are continuously tortured there.

But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to them.'

But he pleaded, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, they would repent.'

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this home, for he too is a real descendant of Abraham.

But that the dead are raised, even Moses at the bush has demonstrated, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'