Romans 4:17-19
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
17 just as it has been written [in Gen 17:5] that “I have made you a father of many nations”— before God[a] Whom he believed, the One giving-life-to the dead and calling the things not being as[b] being,
He Believed God’s Promise, Contrary To All His Human Circumstances
18 ... who believed contrary-to[c] hope, upon hope, so that he might become[d] the father of many nations in accordance with the thing having been spoken [in Gen 15:5]: “So shall your seed be”. 19 And not having weakened in faith, he considered[e] his own body already having become impotent[f], being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of the womb of Sarah.
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- Romans 4:17 Abraham is the spiritual father of us all before God.
- Romans 4:17 Or, as-if. That is, calling the things not being [into] being, in an act of creation, as seen in the birth of Isaac. Or, calling/naming the things not [yet] being as-if being, as if they already existed, as when He calls Abraham the father of many nations when he had no child.
- Romans 4:18 Or, against, beyond. That is, contrary to all human hope could offer, upon the hope God promised.
- Romans 4:18 That is, from his viewpoint. Or, so that he became (from our viewpoint).
- Romans 4:19 Some manuscripts say ‘he did not consider’.
- Romans 4:19 Or, dead, as good as dead, lifeless, with regard to procreation.
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