Abraham (6)

In the article preceding we set ourselves to the task of discovering Abraham's place in the scheme of redemption. We saw that by grace he was constituted in a spiritual sense the father of believers in order that with this father the Lord could transact respect­ing the interests of His covenant. It was pointed out that only between the Lord and a believer could this covenant be established at all; that for this reason Abraham had to be made to show himself up as pre­eminently a man of faith...