Anderson(i)
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
14 saying: Most surely will I abundantly bless you, and abundantly multiply you.
15 And so, when he had waited patiently, he received the promises.
16 For, verily, men swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.
17 Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath,
18 that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled to lay hold on the hope set before us;