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Ro 4:1 King James What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
THE FOREGOING DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ILLUSTRATED FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. (Rom. 4:1-25)

What shall we say then that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?--that is, (as the order in the original shows), "hath found, as pertaining to ('according to,' or 'through') the flesh"; meaning, "by all his natural efforts or legal obedience."
 
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1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.