This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Frank Oliver tell the story of Abraham Lincoln's speech the Gettysburg Address.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

And as you read the story, remember its larger context: God's promise to make Abraham the father of a great people through his son, Isaac.

当阅读这个故事时，记住它的大框架：上帝许诺,亚伯拉罕通过他的儿子以撒成为大国之父。

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In Genesis 15,God's promise to Abraham is formalized in a ritual ceremony.

创世纪》15中上帝对亚伯拉罕的应许是通过仪式起效的。

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Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Abraham's faith withstands many a trial.

亚伯拉罕的信仰经受了多重考验。

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President Obama will return to Illinois to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's two hundredth birthday at a big dinner in Springfield this Thursday.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

And Abraham's reaction comes as something of a surprise. He objects to the plan, and he starts to argue with God. "Will you sweep away the innocent along with the guilty? Shall not the judge of all the earth justly?" That's in Genesis 18:23-25. The question is of course rhetorical.

亚伯拉罕的反应时一种惊奇，他反对,这个计划，他开始与上帝争论，“无论善恶,你都要剿灭吗？审判全地的主岂能不行公义么？“，这在,《创世纪》第18章第23至25章，这个问题当然是夸张的。

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In the presidential election of eighteen-sixty, he supported his party's candidate, not the candidate of the Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Does he fully intend to obey this command, to annul the covenantal promise with his own hand? Or does he trust in God to intervene? Or is this a paradox of faith? Does Abraham intend faithfully to obey, all the while trusting faithfully that God's promise will nevertheless be fulfilled?

他是否完全打算遵守这个命令，亲手废止,契约的应许？或者，他信任上帝的干涉吗？又或者,这是个信仰的悖论吗？亚伯拉罕打算忠诚地服从，同时,忠实地相信即使如此上帝的应许也会实现吗？

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This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe discuss the beginning of Abraham Lincoln's presidency.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

She says people are greatly interested in Abraham Lincoln's death, the first assassination of an American president.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Mister Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in front of the Old State Capitol Building in Springfield,Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

They could only listen. In late June,eighteen sixty-five, the trial of Abraham Lincoln's assassins ended.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

We will tell the story of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address next week.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

Another of America's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, is on the five-dollar bill.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

To millions of Americans, Abraham Lincoln's death was a personal loss.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Yet Abraham Lincoln is often called America's greatest president.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The historians chose Abraham Lincoln as America's greatest president.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

We look to the other side of the ocean to learn how a people which has known how to make itself free, knows how to preserve its freedom. " The assassination of Abraham Lincoln touched the imagination of America's writers.

VOA: special.2009.12.31