And He said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is perished; we are cut off to ourselves.
even as it is written, “I have appointed you a father of many nations”; before God, whom he believed, the One making the dead ones live, and calling the things not being as if being, Gen. 17:5
And being about a hundred years old, not weakening in faith, he did not consider his body already being as good as dead, nor yet the dead state of Sarah’s womb,