1 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Grk “who against hope believed,” referring to Abraham. The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
3 sn A quotation from Gen 17:5.
4 tn Grk “according to that which had been spoken.”