The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go.

"Then He gave him the Covenant of circumcision, and under this Covenant he became the father of Isaac--whom he circumcised on the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve Patriarchs.

When, however, Jacob heard that there was wheat to be had, he sent our forefathers into Egypt; that was the first time.

Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his family, numbering seventy-five persons, to come to him,

and Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and so did our forefathers,

"'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.' "Quaking with fear Moses did not dare gaze.

David obtained favour with God, and asked leave to provide a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.