“And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:”
Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah's womb was also dead. The concrete situation: Abraham's body was deadened—not living in the sense required for procreation. Sarah's womb was similarly dead. The situation appeared impossible; yet Abraham's faith did not waver.
Church Fathers on Romans 4:19
“And being not weak in faith, he considered his own body now dead.” Do you see how he gives the obstacles, as well as the high spirit of the righteous man which surmounts all? “Against hope,” he says, was that which was promised: this is the first obstacle. For Abraham had no other person who had received a son in this way to look to. They that were after him looked to him, but he to no one, save to God only. And this is why he said, “against hope.” Then, “his body now…
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