¹فماذا نقول ان ابانا ابراهيم قد وجد حسب الجسد.

¹What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

²لانه ان كان ابراهيم قد تبرر بالاعمال فله فخر. ولكن ليس لدى الله.

²For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

³لانه ماذا يقول الكتاب. فآمن ابراهيم بالله فحسب له برا.

³For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:6

⁴اما الذي يعمل فلا تحسب له الاجرة على سبيل نعمة بل على سبيل دين.

⁴Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

⁵واما الذي لا يعمل ولكن يؤمن بالذي يبرر الفاجر فايمانه يحسب له برا.

⁵But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

⁶كما يقول داود ايضا في تطويب الانسان الذي يحسب له الله برا بدون اعمال.

⁶Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

⁷طوبى للذين غفرت آثامهم وسترت خطاياهم.

⁷“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

⁸طوبى للرجل الذي لا يحسب له الرب خطية.

⁸Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.” Psalm 32:1-2

⁹أفهذا التطويب هو على الختان فقط ام على الغرلة ايضا. لاننا نقول انه حسب لابراهيم الايمان برا.

⁹Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

¹⁰فكيف حسب. أوهو في الختان ام في الغرلة. ليس في الختان بل في الغرلة.

¹⁰How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹واخذ علامة الختان ختما لبر الايمان الذي كان في الغرلة ليكون ابا لجميع الذين يؤمنون وهم في الغرلة كي يحسب لهم ايضا البر.

¹¹He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

¹²وابا للختان للذين ليسوا من الختان فقط بل ايضا يسلكون في خطوات ايمان ابينا ابراهيم الذي كان وهو في الغرلة.

¹²He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

¹³فانه ليس بالناموس كان الوعد لابراهيم او لنسله ان يكون وارثا للعالم بل ببر الايمان.

¹³For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴لانه ان كان الذين من الناموس هم ورثة فقد تعطل الايمان وبطل الوعد.

¹⁴For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

¹⁵لان الناموس ينشئ غضبا اذ حيث ليس ناموس ليس ايضا تعدّ.

¹⁵For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

¹⁶لهذا هو من الايمان كي يكون على سبيل النعمة ليكون الوعد وطيدا لجميع النسل ليس لمن هو من الناموس فقط بل ايضا لمن هو من ايمان ابراهيم الذي هو اب لجميعنا.

¹⁶For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

¹⁷كما هو مكتوب اني قد جعلتك ابا لامم كثيرة. امام الله الذي آمن به الذي يحيي الموتى ويدعو الاشياء غير الموجودة كانها موجودة.

¹⁷As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” Genesis 17:5 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.

¹⁸فهو على خلاف الرجاء آمن على الرجاء لكي يصير ابا لامم كثيرة كما قيل هكذا يكون نسلك.

¹⁸Who 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.” Genesis 15:5

¹⁹واذ لم يكن ضعيفا في الايمان لم يعتبر جسده وهو قد صار مماتا اذ كان ابن نحو مئة سنة ولا مماتية مستودع سارة.

¹⁹Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

²⁰ولا بعدم ايمان ارتاب في وعد الله بل تقوّى بالايمان معطيا مجدا للّه.

²⁰Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

²¹وتيقن ان ما وعد به هو قادر ان يفعله ايضا.

²¹and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

²²لذلك ايضا حسب له برا.

²²Therefore it also was “reckoned to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:6

²³ولكن لم يكتب من اجله وحده انه حسب له

²³Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

²⁴بل من اجلنا نحن ايضا الذين سيحسب لنا الذين نؤمن بمن اقام يسوع ربنا من الاموات.

²⁴but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

²⁵الذي أسلم من اجل خطايانا وأقيم لاجل تبريرنا

²⁵who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.