For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

But he did not give him any inheritance in it, not even a foot of the land. All be did was to promise that he would give it as a possession to him and to his offspring after him (he at the time being childless).

As the time approached for the promise God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

So we now preach to you the glad news that the promise made to the fathers

To-day I am standing my trial for hoping in the promise made by God to our fathers,

a promise which our twelve tribes hope to gain by serving God earnestly both night and day. And I am actually impeached by Jews for this hope, O king!