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Romans 4:17

(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations, ) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Is God here referring to the fact that Abraham was the father of the Ishmaelites, or the Amalekites, or the Hagarenes? No … God is a father not by way of natural relationship but by way of the relation of faith. It is in this sense also that Abraham is the father of us all.

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