they answered him, Abraham is our father. if you were Abraham's children, said Jesus, you would act like Abraham.

at length the beggar died: and was conveyed by the angels to Abraham's bower. the rich man died too, and was buried.

they answered him, we are Abraham's offspring, and were never slaves to any man: why then do you say, "ye shall be made free?"

I know you are Abraham's offspring; but ye seek to kill me, because my doctrine doth not penetrate into you.

and if you belong to Christ, you are Abraham's offspring, and his heirs by virtue of the promise.

for he is not the deliverer of angels; but the deliverer of Abraham's posterity.

and don't pretend to say within your selves, We have Abraham for our father: for I tell you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham:

let your actions therefore show your repentance, and don't pretend to say within yourselves, "we have Abraham for our father:" for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

now that the dead are raised, may be inferr'd from Moses's relation concerning the bush, where he stiles the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.