Romans 4:23. How it was not written for his sake alone. The rest of the chapter states in plain language the application of the case of Abraham to the gospel believers. Thus Paul shows that God is the God of all believers, and that we establish the law through faith (chap. Romans 3:28-31). The phrase ‘it is written,' which occurs here, is not the usual one: it denotes the past historical act of writing, and emphasizes the design of God's Spirit in causing it to be written; the usual phrase points to the permanent validity of the Scriptural quotation. Here, as throughout the Epistle, the Apostle insists that the whole Old Testament pointed to the universality of Christianity.

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