ACC ~ Galatians 3 v8b

THE GOSPEL BEFOREHAND TO ABRAHAM. AUGUSTINE: The greatest cause for triumph in Abraham was that, before his circumcision, faith was reckoned to him for righteousness. This is most correctly referred to the promise that “All nations shall be blessed in you,”meaning of course by the following of his faith, by which he was justified even before the ordinance of circumcision, which he received as a token of faith, and long before the servitude of the law, which was given much later. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 20 [1B.3.2-9].

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