Hebrews 11:18 (WEB)
to whom it was said, “Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,”
Fathers and councils · 4
Augustine of Hippo
“…and another in another; according to which Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and David, and all those commended by the mouth of God were righteous, but were judged unrighteous by foolish men, judging out of man’s judgment, and gauging by the petty standard of their own manners the manners of the whole…” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 8–40.
Read the whole comment“…seed be called: thinking that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead;” therefore he has added, “from whence also he received him in a similitude.”” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 17–19.
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John Chrysostom
“Hebrews xi. 17–19” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“But how much greater was that won by Abraham who was content to slay his only son, of whom he had been told that he was to inherit the world, yet did not cease to hope that after death Isaac would live again.” — editor's note: Cf. Heb. xi. 17–19.
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Parallel passages
Romans 9:7 and Hebrews 11:18 share the same wording (8 words).