The Beginning

¹⁷ As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”^[a](A) He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life^(B) to the dead and calls^(C) into being things that were not.^(D)

² in the hope of eternal life,^(A) which God, who does not lie,^(B) promised before the beginning of time,^(C)

³ By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command,^(A) so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.