{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3199","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: \"Leave your country and your kindred and come into the land I will show you.\" Then he left the land, etc. The land and kindred of Abraham refers to the homeland and race of the Chaldeans, from where he had long since left, who now lived in Mesopotamia, but because he left with hope of returning and longing, he hears from the Lord: \"Leave your country.\" Not to physically move himself, which he had already done, but to remove the love of it from his mind. Therefore, what follows: Then he left the land of the Chaldeans, does not signify a physical departure, but a departure of the mind, by which he separated himself forever from the conversation and people of the Chaldeans. Because according to the belief of the Chroniclers, in the same year he left Chaldea, entered Mesopotamia, stayed in Haran, and was led into the promised land.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Cassian</b>: [Paphnutius said,] \"We read that the Lord commanded Abraham to do these three things all at once when he said to him, 'Leave your country and your kinsfolk and your father's house.' \" First he spoke of \"your country,\" namely, of the resources of this world and of earthly wealth; second, of \"your kinsfolk,\" namely, of the former way of life and behavior and vices that have been related to us from our birth by a connection as it were of a certain affinity or consanguinity; third, of \"your father's house,\" namely, of every vestige of this world which the eyes gaze upon.<br/><i>— CONFERENCE 3.6.2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into a land which I shall show thee.\" \"And from thy kindred.\" How then saith the Scripture, that Abraham's father was willing to go out? Hence we learn, that it was in consequence of Abraham's vision, that his father was moved to join in the migration. \"Get thee out of thy kindred.\" Here he shows how far these men are from being children of Abraham, how obedient he was. \"And from thy kindred.\" Uncomfortable reflections, both, that he endured the labors, while ye reap the fruits, and that all your ancestors were in evil case.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 15</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c4d8883cfe5e4ec4f35ee8afe0ff68564c18508957d2ada1e0e91b4705bdb434","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3199,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"458883f91d67f56c0afea7bfebbb7a3e0d1e9c6c73e70415846ee0295d41197d","translator":null,"work":null}