just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
Having appealed to facts and experience, he now gives quotations from Scripture. And first, he brings forward the example of Abraham. Arguments drawn from examples are not always so conclusive, but this is one of the most powerful, because neither in the subject nor in the person is there any ground of exception.
Abraham was justified by faith, and so are all believers. Scripture foresaw that God would justify the heathen through faith in Christ; therefore believers of any nation, blessed as Abraham was, are justified in the same way he was.
AI summary
Commenting on Galatians 3:6-18
Even as Abraham believed God,.... The apostle having observed, that the special grace and extraordinary gifts of the Spirit were received not through the preaching of the law, but through the doctrine of faith; by an easy transition, passes on to a further confirmation of the doctrine of justification by faith, by producing the instance of Abraham, what the Scripture says of him, and the...