Abraham (2)

As the channel of blessing, as the father of the faithful, as the representative personage with whom Jehovah instituted, in a formal sense, His covenant of grace, Abraham occupies a unique place in the Divine scheme of redemption. The matter upon which we began to dwell in our previous essay is that for this place Abraham was prepared, fitted, by the environ­ment in which he was inducted as well as by all the experiences and events entering into the makeup of his sojourn in Canaan. The faith...