Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions: Romans 4:17, »I have made thee a father of many nations.«

and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written--`A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe--God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.