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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
KwabaseRoma 4:18
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
against: Romans 4:19, Romans 5:5, Romans 8:24, Ruth 1:11-13, Proverbs 13:12, Ezekiel 37:11, Mark 5:35, Mark 5:36, Luke 1:18, Acts 27:25
So shall: Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 18:11 - old Genesis 34:30 - and I shall 1 Samuel 30:6 - David Psalms 22:4 - General Psalms 42:5 - hope Isaiah 26:3 - because Matthew 14:31 - O thou Mark 11:23 - and shall John 3:33 - hath set Galatians 4:23 - but Hebrews 7:4 - Abraham Hebrews 11:12 - as the sand
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who against hope believed in hope,.... Abraham believed the promise of God,
that he might become the father of many nations, being assisted by a supernatural aid: "in hope"; of the fulfilment of it by the grace and power of God: "against hope": against all visible, rational grounds of hope; Sarah's womb and his own body being dead, but inasmuch as God had said it, he believed:
according to that which is spoken, so shall thy seed be; his faith rested upon the word of God, which showed the nature of it, and that it was of the right kind.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who against hope - Who against all apparent or usual ground of hope. He refers here to the prospect of a posterity; see Romans 4:19-21.
Believed in hope - Believed in what was promised to excite his hope. Hope here is put for the object of his hope - what was promised.
According to what was spoken - Genesis 15:5.
So shall thy seed be - That is, as the stars in heaven for multitude. Thy posterity shall be very numerous.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 4:18. Who against hope believed in hope — The faith of Abraham bore an exact correspondence to the power and never-failing faithfulness of God; for though, in the ordinary course of things, he had not the best foundation of hope, yet he believed that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken; namely, that his posterity should be like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the dust of the earth.
