29And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. …
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-92)The apostle having just before been speaking of the promise made to Abraham, and representing that as the rule of our justification, and not the law, lest they should think he did too much derogate from the law, and render it altogether useless, he thence takes occasion to discourse of the design and tendency of it, and to acquaint us for what purposes it was given. It might be asked, “If that pro…
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