Father Abraham

Romans 4:1

“What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?” -Romans 4:1

Paul now moves from cogent arguments in chapters 1-3 to “confirmation by example” in chapter 4.

This is also a good time to recall that the chapters and verses we use today were helpfully added later in church history—around 1277 AD by Stephen Langton, who w…