17 (As it is written, I have made thee a [a]father of many nations) even before [b]God whom he believed, who [c]quickeneth the dead, and [d]calleth those things which be not, as though they were.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 4:17 This fatherhood is spiritual, depending only upon the virtue of God, who made the promise.
  2. Romans 4:17 Before God, that is, by a spiritual kindred, which had place before God, and maketh us acceptable to God.
  3. Romans 4:17 Who restored to life.
  4. Romans 4:17 With whom these things are already, which as yet are not in deed, as he that can with a word make what he will of nothing.

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