Exemplified by the case of Abraham

6. We must supply the obvious answers to the question of Galatians 3:5. Assuredly those miraculous powers followed the preaching of faith; (comp. Mark 16:20) and so it was with Abraham; he believedand was justified.

The quotation is from the LXX. version of Genesis 15:6. [The Hebrew reads, -and He counted it to him for righteousness".] It occurs also Romans 4:3; James 2:23. From the appeal thus made by St Paul and St James to the case of Abraham, it would seem that they regarded the passage in Genesis as affording common ground to themselves and all (whether Jews or converts) who acknowledged the authority of the O.T. Scriptures.

On the faith of Abraham, see Appendix IV. p. 88.

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