And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
How eminently was this fulfilled in Abram's history. First, according to nature in the flesh, in the children of Ishmael. See Gen_16:10; Gen_17:20. Secondly, according to promise. Here Abram. was greater still in the issue of Isaac, Jacob, and the Patriarchs. Numbers 22:10. And Thirdly, and above all, in his spiritual seed, in which all the followers of his faith and obedience, are in scripture accounted his children: as well in the Gentile, as the Jewish Church. Galatians 3:8-9; Revelation 7:9.