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فَهُوَ عَلَى خِلاَفِ الرَّجَاءِ، آمَنَ عَلَى الرَّجَاءِ، لِكَيْ يَصِيرَ أَبًا لأُمَمٍ كَثِيرَةٍ، كَمَا قِيلَ:«هكَذَا يَكُونُ نَسْلُكَ».
التفاسير
مقتطفات جُمعت من تفاسير منشورة لترسيخ القراءة.
Who against hope--when no ground for hope appeared. believed in hope--that is, cherished the believing expectation. that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be--that is, Such "as the stars of heaven," Gen 15:5.
افتح المصدر ↗The great gospel doctrine of justification by faith without the works of the law was so very contrary to the notions the Jews had learnt from those that sat in Moses' chair, that it would hardly go down with them; and therefore the apostle insists very largely upon it, and labours much in the confirmation and illustration of it. He had before proved it by reason and argument, now in this chapter he proves it by example, which in some places serves for confirmation as well as illustration. The example he pitches upon is that of Abraham, whom he chooses to mention because the Jews gloried much in their relation to Abraham, put it in the first rank of their external privileges that they were Abraham's seed, and truly they had Abraham for their father. Therefore this instance was likely to be more taking and convincing to the Jews than any other. His argument stands thus: "All that are saved are justified in the same way as Abraham was; but Abraham was justified by faith, and not by works; therefore all that are saved are so justified;" for it would easily be acknowledged that Abraham was the father of the faithful. Now this is an argument, not only pari - from an equal case, as they say, but fortiori - from a stronger case. If Abraham, a man so famous for works, so eminent in holiness and obedience, was nevertheless justified by faith only, and not by those works, how much less can any other, especially any of those that spring from him, and come so far short of him in works, set up for a justification by their own works? And it proves likewise, ex abundanti - the more abundantly, as some observe, that we are not justified, no not by those good works which flow from faith, as the matter of our righteousness; for such were Abraham's works, and are we better than he? The who…
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مقاطع أخرى يربطها المجتمع بهذا المقطع أكثر من غيرها. انقر لتقرأها.
لأَنَّنَا بِالرَّجَاءِ خَلَصْنَا. وَلكِنَّ الرَّجَاءَ الْمَنْظُورَ لَيْسَ رَجَاءً، لأَنَّ مَا يَنْظُرُهُ أَحَدٌ كَيْفَ يَرْجُوهُ أَيْضًا؟
وَالرَّجَاءُ لاَ يُخْزِي، لأَنَّ مَحَبَّةَ اللهِ قَدِ انْسَكَبَتْ فِي قُلُوبِنَا بِالرُّوحِ الْقُدُسِ الْمُعْطَى لَنَا.
لِذلِكَ سُرُّوا أَيُّهَا الرِّجَالُ، لأَنِّي أُومِنُ بِاللهِ أَنَّهُ يَكُونُ هكَذَا كَمَا قِيلَ لِي.
الرَّجَاءُ الْمُمَاطَلُ يُمْرِضُ الْقَلْبَ، وَالشَّهْوَةُ الْمُتَمَّمَةُ شَجَرَةُ حَيَاةٍ.
كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ:«إِنِّي قَدْ جَعَلْتُكَ أَبًا لأُمَمٍ كَثِيرَةٍ». أَمَامَ اللهِ الَّذِي آمَنَ بِهِ، الَّذِي يُحْيِي الْمَوْتَى، وَيَدْعُو الأَشْيَاءَ غَيْرَ الْمَوْجُودَةِ كَأَنَّهَا مَوْجُودَةٌ.
ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي: «يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ، هذِهِ العِظَامُ هِيَ كُلُّ بَيتِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. هَا هُمْ يَقُولُونَ: يَبِسَتْ عِظَامُنَا وَهَلَكَ رَجَاؤُنَا. قَدِ انْقَطَعْنَا.
فَقَالَ زَكَرِيَّا لِلْمَلاَكِ:«كَيْفَ أَعْلَمُ هذَا، لأَنِّي أَنَا شَيْخٌ وَامْرَأَتِي مُتَقَدِّمَةٌ فِي أَيَّامِهَا؟»
وَإِذْ لَمْ يَكُنْ ضَعِيفًا فِي الإِيمَانِ لَمْ يَعْتَبِرْ جَسَدَهُ وَهُوَ قَدْ صَارَ مُمَاتًا، إِذْ كَانَ ابْنَ نَحْوِ مِئَةِ سَنَةٍ وَلاَ مُمَاتِيَّةَ مُسْتَوْدَعِ سَارَةَ.