Know you therefore that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
They which are of faith. A Græcism for they who are faithful, who imitate Abraham"s faith.
The same are the children of Abraham. Not by blood, but by imitation; to them, therefore, belongs the blessing pronounced on Abraham.
Every mystery which is enacted by our Lord Jesus Christ asks only for faith. The mystery was enacted at that time for our sake and aimed at our resurrection and liberation, should we have faith in the mystery of Christ and in Christ. For the patriarchs prefigured and foretold that man would be justified from faith. Therefore, just as it was reckoned as righteousness to Abraham that he had faith, so we too, if we have faith in Christ and every mystery of his, will be sons of Abraham. Our whole life will be accounted as righteous. .
For if "faith "is the source whence we are reckoned to Abraham as his "sons "(as the apostle teaches, saying to the Galatians, "You know, consequently, that (they) who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham".
(nations) who, as the fruit of the "faith "which precedes digamy, had to be accounted "sons of Abraham."
