17(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.
18Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.
19And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:
20Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,
21And being certain that God was able to keep his word.
22For which reason it was put to his account as righteousness.
23Now, it was not because of him only that this was said,
