To Florus 2.154

How thoroughly this passage opposes your opinion was discussed in my first work; whatever needs to be recalled from it will be examined. For now, observe that the promise made to Abraham as a reward for his faith, saying that he would be established as the father of many nations, showed two things. He should not be maintained to be the progenitor of only one people, since he was foretold as the father of many nations. Nor did he receive the reward of belief so exclusively that others who believe in the same way should be thought excluded from sharing the reward. ‘But it was not written only for his sake,’ Paul says, ‘that it was reckoned to him, but also for ours, to whom it will be reckoned as we believe in the one who raised Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead, who was handed over because of our offenses and rose because of our justification’ (Romans 4:23–25).