CLV(i)
13 For God, promising Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, swears by Himself,
14 saying, "If, in sooth, it is blessing, I shall be blessing you, and multiplying, I shall be multiplyingyou!"
15 And thus, being patient, he happened on the promise."
16 For men are swearing by a greater, and to them an oath for confirmation is an end of all contradiction,
17 in which God, intending more superabundantly to exhibit to the enjoyers of the allotment of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposes with an oath,
18 that by two immutable matters, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong consolation, who are fleeing for refuge to lay hold of the expectation lying before us,