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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Romans 4:13 - 4:13
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For the promise, etc. - This is merely an enlargement of the foregoing reasoning, applying to the law what had just been said of circumcision.
that he should be the heir of the world - or, that “all the families of the earth should be blessed in him.”
was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law - in virtue of obedience to the law.
but through the righteousness of faith - in virtue of his simple faith in the divine promises.