I am] Exodus 3:6. the God of Abraham] This was spoken when they were all three dead. He doth not say, The Lord of Abraham; for he is Lord of livelesse things also, chap. 11. 25. Psalms 24:1. but, The God of Abraham, in covenant with him. Now seeing this Covenant of God was with the bodies of these three patriarchs, as well as with their souls, as appears by their circumcision; it follows, that as their souls were then alive, so their bodies must needs be raised from the dead, and be made eternally happie.