25Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)We have here the sermon which Peter preached after he had cured the lame man. When Peter saw it . 1. When he saw the people got together in a crowd, he took that opportunity to preach Christ to them, especially the temple being the place of their concourse, and Solomon’s porch there: let them come and hear a more excellent wisdom than Solomon’s, for, behold, a greater than Solomon is here preached…
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