 a descendant of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin. So he gives his physical lineage, and that's very important because it's the physical lineage that goes back to the covenant that God made with Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, 17, confirmed by circumcision, chapter 22, and then to Isaac and Jacob as well. So in verse 2, God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew, progenosko, the Greek word which means a previous relationship.