Bible Dictionary: The Jews: Descended from Abraham

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Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
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John 8:39
They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
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Library

Abraham
... So say the old traditions of the Arabs, who are descended from Abraham through Ishmael ...
You read again and again how his children, the Jews, turned back ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon v abraham.htm

Whether Christ Should have Been Circumcised?
... He was descended from Abraham, who had received the commandment of circumcision
as a sign of his faith in Him. Fourthly, in order to take away from the Jews an ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ should have been 3.htm

False Civilization
... the Kenite tribe, which claimed"at least its chiefs"to be descended from Abraham,
by his ... away captive to Babylon with the rest of the Jews; and with ...
/.../kingsley/discipline and other sermons/sermon vi false civilization.htm

Faustus Does not Think it Would be a Great Honor to Sit Down with ...
... commendation of them, when He admonished the Jews that, if ... ground which he specifies
for our becoming Abraham's children, though not descended from him ...
/.../faustus does not think it.htm

Paul and Silas in Thessalonica and Berea.
... The Jews gloried in their extraction as noble, because they were descended from
Abraham, a man illustrious among his contemporaries, and a distinguished ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xix paul and silas.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xxii. 42, Where the Lord Asks ...
... Now if it was said to Abraham, "In thy seed shall ... that question which He had proposed
to the Jews, when they ... If no one ascendeth but He that descended, that is ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xli on the words.htm

Jewish Chronology.
... which Abraham sojourned, and the entire family descended from him ... But the father
of this Abraham is Thare, [1062 ... it comes to pass that the Jews are denominated ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxvi jewish chronology.htm

To the Monks of Constantinople.
... the ever living God is Himself Creator of the Universe; the Jews that about ... of the
body and of the soul, and that they are descended from Abraham and David ...
/.../theodoret/the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/cxlv to the monks of.htm

From the Flood to Abraham
... except that of Arphaxad from whom descended Abram ... the Asiatic supremacy and especially
in the Jews who conquered ... In ages long before Abraham and Moses the world ...
/.../tidwell/the bible period by period/chapter iii from the flood.htm

Argument. --Again He Proves from the Gospel that Christ is God.
... the flesh." As much they as the Jews, holding that ... that he might return thither,
He who descended thence must ... only man, how did He say, "Before Abraham was, I ...
/.../chapter xv argument again he proves.htm