Hebrews 11:12
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- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Hebrews 11:12
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Hebrews 11:12
Ver. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one,.... That is, Abraham: the Arabic version has here a strange interpolation;
"this faith Isaac and Rebecca conceived in mind, and so there were born of one, Esau and Jacob.''
And him as good as dead; being an hundred years of age;
[See comments on Romans 4:19]. The Ethiopic version reads, "the bodies of both were like a dead carcass"; both of Abraham and Sarah:
so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable; as was promised to Abraham,
Genesis 15:5 which has been fulfilled, Isaiah 10:22 and will still have a further fulfilment, Hosea 1:10.