who against hope believed, with hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was said unto him, "So shall thy seed be."

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."

(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:

And in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God.

And as Esaias said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and we had been made like unto Gomorrah."

but as it is written, They, to whom nothing was said concerning Him, shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand.