Romans 4:19

being not weak i.e., at that crisis; so the Gr. implies. Under that strainhe did not succumb; in faith he rose to the effort.

he considered not So as to distract his view of the fact of the Promise. He was conscious of the physical impossibility (at least in Genesis 17:17), but he looked away from it, and rose above it. See below, Romans 4:20-21.

now dead Same word as that translated "as good as dead," Hebrews 11:12.

about an hundred year old Ninety-nine (Genesis 17:1). Bengel remarks that between Shem and Abraham none of the patriarchs had begotten a first son (so far as recorded) when 100 years old. Indeed, none did so at above 34, except Terah.