under Ds..-id and Solomon) over the whole matioally ponible (of, oh, ix. SB: x. 11), bul <'<'unl.n- from the MediternmC'l\n to the Unl\llowl\ble here, since hope oannot well be Euphi,tes, IU!. in Gen. xiii. H, 15; xv. 18, regarded u the obje()t of belief) to the en4 etl'. Bu~ their full soope trnnNlt•nde any he might become the father of many natiollllj •uch l1m1teJ fulfilmenl M where it is sBid aoeordin,r to that whiah waa ■poken, Bo ahe.11 i hRt the promised eeed should be M the thy 1eedbe (Gen. xv. 5, viz. "aa tbe stars"). Ei&n; of heaven, t.nd as the dust of the And being not wee.II: in faith1 he oondderecl e,U"th that <'&nnot be numbered, and tht\t in not (i.e. paid no regard to 11.s a hindre.noo to it all the nations of the earth shouhl be faith. The codices relied on by our recent blessed. The prophets &O<'ordin!ilY recog- Revisc,rs omit ob before 11:a.,.,11J71trw, and they nized a far larger ultimat,e fultilment in e.coordingly tre.usl11te, "he •considered his their frequent pictUJ'8S of the Messiah's own body," thus makin~ the idea to be that uni..-ersal clominion; and there was no need he uiaa fully awe.re of the apparent impossi• for the apoeUe to prove her(, 'l'l"hat the Jews bility of bis having a son, but believed not4 all'l!Jlldy nuderetood. The only differenoe withstanding. But the rending of the Textwi between the view oanent among them e.nd Receptus lms good support, and espeoially hit! would be that they would mostly have that of the Greek ;Fathers, and gives thi i.n view a universal worldly sovereignty best sense) his own body now dead (alreadg with its local centre on the throne of David dea.deMd-11,11,11:pC:.µ.,11011-i.e. with respect· tG at Jerasalem, while be interpretro spiri- virility, So, with the ea.me reference, Heb. tually, seeing beyond the outward frame- :rl. 12), when he we.a about e.n hundred years work of prophetic visions to the ideal they old, neither yet the dee.dneBS of Sarah'a imply. w Heru mundi idem est quod pater womb ; bnt he staggered not at the promise omniwn gentium, benedictionem accipien- of God through unbelief, but we.a -atrong tiwn. Totus mundtU promissns est Abrah19 (rather, v,a., atrengt.hened) in faith, giving et semini ejns per tQtnm mundnm conjunc- glory to God ; and being fully peraua.deil tim. Abrahnmo obtigit terra Canaan, et that whe.t he had promised he wu able e.lso sic allis alia pars; e.tqne emporaJ,ia. ~nt to perform. With regard to the constrncli"ti ~men ~ritw,lium. Cbristns beres of ver. 20, we niay observe the.t, thon.'sh il1 mn:id.i et omninm (Heb. i 2; ii. 5; Rev. the Authorized· Version, which is followed :ri. 15), et qni in eum crednnt Abrahie a.hove, the prepositions put, before ·" nn,, exemplo (Matt. v. 5)" (Bengel). It is to be belief" and "!e.ith" a.re varied, both wora- obsers-ed that, thong;h Abraham himself in e.re datives withont a preposition in· th• ter. 13 is spoken of e.s "the heir of the Greek, and -apparently·with the ea.me, force 'l'l"orld." yet t.ht: prooed.ing expression, "to of the dative in both cases, the sense being, ALraham or to bis seed," sufficiently inti- "With regard to the promise, etc., unbelief mata tu.at it is i.n his seed, identified with did not ea.use him to waver (ol, 3.. 11:pllh, ifi him, that he is conceived as so inheriting. 4,,., ...,.£~), butja.ith made him strong (lv•3w~- Y f'?S. 16, 17.-Therefore it is of faith, that ~61/ .,.ff ..-ltrr.. )." 'l'he purport of the whole it ll"'Y be aceording to grace (11:a:1'a x&pw, as pe.sea.:i:e is to show, with reference to Gen: iu ver. 4); to the end the promise may be xvii. 15-22; xvi ii 9-16, how Abraham(■ &ure to e.ll the ■ eed; not to that only which faith in the promise of e. seed· through Sa.re.I)\ i.& of the Law, but to that aho which is of v.hich ~eerued impossible .. in the na.turid the faith of .Abraham, who ill the father of course of thiag2, corresponded in eBBenoe to all, (u it ill written, A father of many our faith in "him that raised Jesus onr Loni I111.tiona have I made thee,) before him whom from the den.cl" (ver. 24). It we.a fe.fth in,. he believed, who quickensth the dead, e.nd Divine power above nature, e.ble to quiokeu calleth the thingl that a.re not u though into BUperna.tnre.1 life that which humanly they were. Ver. 16 introduces no new is dead. And 11.11 Ahra.he.m's faith in thi1 th,,oght, being but a IIIIIIlming op of what promised birth of lflllao iirvolved a furthdr bas been 11e.id., except that, in ver. 17, the faith in the fulfilment through him of all k:z:t Gen.. xvii. 5 is adduced in support of the promises, so our faith in the resurreotiod the exteniled sen.ae in which "the seed of ofChriiot involves faith in a.II that is signUled Abraham" hB.1! been understood. In ver. 17, e.nd assured to ns thereby-ID "the power of tr...o, the thought ie introduced of bow Abra,- 11 Divine life" in him, to bring life out,~ he.m evinced his faith; e.ud this with e. view death, to regenerate e.nd quicken ,he apiritiial, of showing it to have been in eBSCnce the ally dead, e.nd finally in "eternal rc,demp- &a.me BB the jWltifying faith of Christiall.8. • tioa" nnd the "restitution •Of e.11 thinp:a~ Yers. 18-21.-Who agaimt hope in hope (cf. ,John iii. 6; v, 25; eh. vJ; 8-12; l•COJI. believed (,rap' h,wtia br' iA..-/3,-e.n oxymo- iii. 21-28; Eph. ·i. 18-28; ii; 4-a; Re¥, rrm. For a similar use of l,r' lMr13,, see i. 18; to which many other similarly aigoift- l O,r ix. 10; also below, eh. v. 2. ltspasltion cant pal!llRgell might· h& 11cllled),, It may he iu the:; Autborned Version n:i,lght sugg'10st ft■ obPerved ·that, not only in) the Jinat1mco her11 dt_pt,ndence on " believeii," which ii IP'am- adduoed, buHn his whole life as rccordud,. ha 011. Iv. 1-25.J THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE ROMA~S. 111
GcncAls, Abro:hnm ebinrls forth ne 11n ex- to whom it llhall be reckoned, who believe empliflcn,tion of hnbitm,1 fo.ith in a. Divine on him that raised up J'e1U.11 our Lord from. order beyond eight, 0.11d trust in Divine pro• the dead; who we.a deli Yered for our oifences, misos. In this consists the religions meo.n- an.d was rai1ed for 01>r jum11eation. It ii ing of thnt record for us nil. Notably so (RB to be observed th11.t the word here 110<1 else- le cspP.ci111ly eet forth in Hoh. xi. 17, etc.) in where tr11n.el11ted "juirtillr,a.tion" is 11,,,czi. his willingness to e11criflce the son through ,.,.,.,r, correepon~ing "!'ith 311,....,,,.6,,,i. The whom the promieewo.e to be fulfilled, retain• correspondence 18 lost m English. The Vnl• ing _still his faith in the fulfilment. gate preaerves it hy justitia. and jmtifo'Atio • Vere. 22-25.-Wherefore Blso it wa1 and the DonayVersion has,hereaeelsewhere' reokoned to him for righteouaneBB. Now it "justice" for 311,a,o.-lnn,. But" righteoumess,: was not written for his sake alone, that it eXJ>resses the meaning better. w11s reckoned to him ; but for our sake Blso,