“Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.”
Therefore from one person, and one as good as dead, descendants were born as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore — the fulfillment of God's promise (Genesis 15:5-6) vindicated Abraham's faith; he and Sarah, dead to reproduction, became progenitors of multitude. The poetic imagery (stars, sand) captures the infinity of blessing.
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