(11) For the promise, that he should be the (h) heir of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the (i) law, but through the righteousness of faith.
(11) A reason why the seed of Abraham is to be considered to be by faith, because Abraham himself through faith was made partaker of the promise by which he was made the father of all nations.
(h) That all the nations of the world should be his children: or by the "world" may be understood the land of Canaan.
(i) For works that he had done, or upon this condition, that he should fulfil the Law.