Hebrews 11:12

Verse 12. Therefore sprang there even of one. From a single individual. What is observed here by the apostle as worthy of remark is, that the whole Jewish people sprang from one man, and that, as the reward of his strong faith, he was made the father and founder of a nation. And him as good as dead. So far as the subject under discussion is concerned. To human appearance there was no more probability that he would have a son at that period of life than that the dead would have. So many as the stars in the sky, etc. An innumerable multitude. This was agreeable to the promise, Ge 15:5; 22:17.