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4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who awill come from your own body shall be your heir.”  
5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and acount the bstars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, c“So shall your ddescendants be.”  
6 And he abelieved in the Lord, and He baccounted it to him for righteousness.  
7 Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who abrought you out of bUr of the Chaldeans, cto give you this land to inherit it.”  
8 And he said, “Lord God, ahow shall I know that I will inherit it?”  
9 So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
10 Then he brought all these to Him and acut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut bthe birds in two.  
11 And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12 Now when the sun was going down, aa deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.  
13 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly athat your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and bthey will afflict them four hundred years.  
14 And also the nation whom they serve aI will judge; afterward bthey shall come out with great possessions.  
15 Now as for you, ayou shall go bto your fathers in peace; cyou shall be buried at a good old age.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Genesis 15:6

And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness - This I conceive to be one of the most important passages in the whole Old Testament. It properly contains and specifies that doctrine of justification by faith which engrosses so considerable a share of the epistles of St. Paul, and at the foundation of which is the atonement made by the Son of God: And he (Abram) believed heemin , he put faith) in Jehovah, vaiyachshebeita lo , and he counted it - the faith he put in Jehovah, to Him for righteousness, tsedakah , or justification; though there was no act in the case but that of the mind and heart, no work of any kind. Hence the doctrine of justification by faith, without any merit of works; for in this case there could be none - no works of Abram which could merit the salvation of the whole human race. It was the promise of God which he credited, and in the blessedness of which he became a partaker through faith. See at Genesis 15:19 (note); see also on Romans 4 (note).




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 15:6:

Deuteronomy 1:10
Acts 2:17
Romans 4:3
Romans 4:10
Romans 4:10
Galatians 3:6
James 2:23

 

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