Rom 4:1-25. The foregoing doctrine of justification by faith illustrated from the Old Testament.
First: Abraham was justified by faith.
What shall we say then that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? - that is, (as the order in the original shows), “hath found, as pertaining to (‘according to,’ or ‘through’) the flesh”; meaning, “by all his natural efforts or legal obedience.”