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Blessed are those who have all their faults forgiven, all their transgressions buried away;✻ (Romans 4, 7)
blessed is the man who is not a sinner in the Lord’s reckoning. (Romans 4, 8)
This blessing, then, does it fall only on those who are circumcised, or on the uncircumcised as well? We saw that Abraham’s faith was reckoned virtue in him. (Romans 4, 9)
And in what state of things was that reckoning made? Was he circumcised or uncircumcised at the time? Uncircumcised, not circumcised yet.✻ (Romans 4, 10)
Circumcision was only given to him as a token; as the seal of that justification which came to him through his faith while he was still uncircumcised. And thus he is the father of all those who, still uncircumcised, have the faith that will be reckoned virtue in them too. (Romans 4, 11)
Meanwhile, he is the father of those who are circumcised, as long as they do not merely take their stand on circumcision, but follow in the steps of that faith which he, our father Abraham, had before circumcision began. (Romans 4, 12)
It was not through obedience to the law, but through faith justifying them, that Abraham and his posterity were promised the inheritance of the world.✻ (Romans 4, 13)
If it is only those who obey the law that receive the inheritance, then his faith was ill founded, and the promise has been annulled. (Romans 4, 14)
(The effect of the law is only to bring God’s displeasure upon us; it is only where there is a law that transgression becomes possible.) (Romans 4, 15)
The inheritance, then, must come through faith (and so by free gift); thus the promise is made good to all Abraham’s posterity, not only that posterity of his which keeps the law, but that which imitates his faith. We are all Abraham’s children; (Romans 4, 16)
and so it was written of him, I have made thee the father of many nations. We are his children in the sight of God, in whom he put his faith, who can raise the dead to life, and send his call to that which has no being, as if it already were. (Romans 4, 17)
There was no wavering in his faith; he gave no thought to the want of life in his own body, though he was nearly a hundred years old at the time, nor to the deadness of Sara’s womb; (Romans 4, 19)
