As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations #– # , in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.
Then he said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.”
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about a hundred years old) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb.