Verse 12
12. Therefore sprang there And now comes the point that renders these events and characters most illustrious to every Hebrew memory. From this miraculous point sprang his chosen race. The Messianic race, like the Messiah himself, had a supernatural birth. Abraham was that Christ might be; and Sarah was the ancestress of the blessed mother of Jesus.
Even of one From one fountain head, Abraham, all the diverging streams of the tribes sprang.
Dead And so from a divinely energized source. Israel was miracle-born. Every Hebrew read in the narrative proof that he was a son of God. The human race was born from Adam; again from Noah; the Jewish race from energized Abraham.
Multitude Forming the twelve tribes, and even now spread through all the earth.
Stars… sand The most natural images in primitive times of a number beyond enumeration.
So in old Herodotus, the oracle is made to say, “I know the number of the sand and the measures of the sea.” And so God said to Abraham, (Genesis 22:17,) “I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore.”
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