{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Next it is related how Terah with his family left the\r\nregion of the Chaldeans and came into Mesopotamia, and\r\ndwelt in Haran. But nothing is said about one of his sons\r\ncalled Nahor, as if he had not taken him along with him.\r\nFor the narrative runs thus: \"And Terah took Abram his\r\nson, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarah his\r\ndaughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and led them forth\r\nout of the region of the Chaldeans to go into the land of\r\nCanaan; and he came into Haran, and dwelt there.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_253_253\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_253_253\">[253]</a> Nahor\r\nand Milcah his wife are nowhere named here. But afterwards,\r\nwhen Abraham sent his servant to take a wife for his\r\nson Isaac, we find it thus written: \"And the servant took ten\r\ncamels of the camels of his lord, and of all the goods of his\r\nlord, with him; and arose, and went into Mesopotamia, into the\r\ncity of Nahor.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_254_254\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_254_254\">[254]</a> This and other testimonies of this sacred\r\nhistory show that Nahor, Abraham's brother, had also left the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_126\">[Pg 126]</a></span>\r\nregion of the Chaldeans, and fixed his abode in Mesopotamia,\r\nwhere Abraham dwelt with his father. Why, then, did the\r\nScripture not mention him, when Terah with his family went\r\nforth out of the Chaldean nation and dwelt in Haran, since it\r\nmentions that he took with him not only Abraham his son,\r\nbut also Sarah his daughter-in-law, and Lot his grandson?\r\nThe only reason we can think of is, that perhaps he had lapsed\r\nfrom the piety of his father and brother, and adhered to the\r\nsuperstition of the Chaldeans, and had afterwards emigrated\r\nthence, either through penitence, or because he was persecuted\r\nas a suspected person. For in the book called Judith, when\r\nHolofernes, the enemy of the Israelites, inquired what kind of\r\nnation that might be, and whether war should be made against\r\nthem, Achior, the leader of the Ammonites, answered him thus:\r\n\"Let our lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant,\r\nand I will declare unto thee the truth concerning the\r\npeople which dwelleth near thee in this hill country, and\r\nthere shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant. For\r\nthis people is descended from the Chaldeans, and they dwelt\r\nheretofore in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the\r\ngods of their fathers, which were glorious in the land of the\r\nChaldeans, but went out of the way of their ancestors, and\r\nadored the God of heaven, whom they knew; and they cast\r\nthem out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia,\r\nand dwelt there many days. And their God said to\r\nthem, that they should depart from their habitation, and go\r\ninto the land of Canaan; and they dwelt,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_255_255\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_255_255\">[255]</a> etc., as Achior the\r\nAmmonite narrates. Whence it is manifest that the house of\r\nTerah had suffered persecution from the Chaldeans for the\r\ntrue piety with which they worshipped the one and true God.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-209"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"785afe0c2e3c15c2789031c504e1fc4a4985a08665c210c7d8fc9304e98265eb","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xi. 31","verse":31,"verse_end":31}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_253_253","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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