^{17 Ref} So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

^{17 Ref} In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

^{17 Ref} in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,