^{17 Ref} As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

^{18 Ref} Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."