Romans 4:11
A seal of the righteousness of the faith; a token, or visible sign, that by means of the faith which he exercised before he was circumcised, he was justified and accepted with God.The father; the model or pattern as to the way of acceptance with God, for all who should believe, though not descendants of Abraham, and not circumcised: to encourage them to exercise such faith as he did, that they also might be justified, and through grace be delivered from the punishment of sin and rewarded with eternal bliss. It is dangerous to put the sign for the thing signified, or make the one a substitute for the other. Those who depend on the sign are destitute of the thing signified; and so long as they continue to do it will remain destitute. Glorying in the shadow, they lose the substance.Galatians 3:7
Children of Abraham; like him in spirit, and justified in the same way, not by works, but by faith.Galatians 3:16
His seed; Christ, as the head of his church; and through him, all believers, who constitute his body.He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; he does not make the promise to Abraham's seeds, as if he were speaking of the many individual children of Abraham; in other words, were making the promise to each one of the many who are his children by outward descent.But as of one, And to thy seed; he makes the promise, as speaking of one, to one seed of Abraham.Which is Christ; that is, this one seed that receives the promise is Christ, and in him all believers, who constitute his body.
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