Worsley(i)
13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying,
14 "Verily blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee."
15 And thus waiting patiently he obtained the promise.
16 For men swear by a greater Being, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all controversy.
17 Wherefore God being willing more abundantly to manifest unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it with an oath:
18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to fail, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us;