Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
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Interpretation
Those are wrong who put a mere notional belief of the gospel for the whole of evangelical religion, as many now do.
Glossary
- Abraham Person
- Father of a multitude, son of Terah, named ( Gen. 11:27 ) before his older brothers Nahor and Haran, because he was the heir of the promises.
- Isaac Person
- Laughter. (1) Israel, or the kingdom of the ten tribes ( Amos 7:9 , 16). (2. ) The only son of Abraham by Sarah. He was the longest lived of the three patriarchs ( Gen. 21:1-3 ).