For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, and the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles, in him will the Gentiles hope.”