“Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.”
saying, 'I will surely bless you and give you many descendants' — the quotation from Genesis 22:17 combines blessing and multiplication of descendants. The promise addresses both spiritual and physical posterity, the fullness of God's covenantal provision.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 6:14
Having boldly reflected on the faults of the Hebrews, and sufficiently alarmed them, he consoles them, first, by praises, and secondly (which also is the stronger ground), by the [thought] that they would certainly attain the object of their hope. Moreover he draws his consolation, not from things future, but again from the past, which indeed would the rather persuade them. For as in the case of punishment, he alarms them rather by those [viz. things future], so also in the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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