{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Now the blessed Stephen, in narrating these things in the\r\nActs of the Apostles, says: \"The God of glory appeared unto\r\nour father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he\r\ndwelt in Charran, and said unto him, Get thee out of thy\r\ncountry, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house,\r\nand come into the land which I will show thee.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_261_261\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_261_261\">[261]</a> According\r\nto these words of Stephen, God spoke to Abraham, not\r\nafter the death of his father, who certainly died in Haran,\r\nwhere his son also dwelt with him, but before he dwelt in\r\nthat city, although he was already in Mesopotamia. Therefore\r\nhe had already departed from the Chaldeans. So that\r\nwhen Stephen adds, \"Then Abraham went out of the land of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_129\">[Pg 129]</a></span>\r\nthe Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_262_262\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_262_262\">[262]</a> this does not point\r\nout what took place after God spoke to him (for it was not\r\nafter these words of God that he went out of the land of\r\nthe Chaldeans, since he says that God spoke to him in Mesopotamia),\r\nbut the word \"<i>then</i>\" which he uses refers to that\r\nwhole period from his going out of the land of the Chaldeans\r\nand dwelling in Haran. Likewise in what follows, \"And\r\nthenceforth, when his father was dead, he settled him in this\r\nland, wherein ye now dwell, and your fathers,\" he does not\r\nsay, after his father was dead he went out from Haran; but\r\nthenceforth he settled him here, after his father was dead. It\r\nis to be understood, therefore, that God had spoken to Abraham\r\nwhen he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran;\r\nbut that he came to Haran with his father, keeping in mind\r\nthe precept of God, and that he went out thence in his own\r\nseventy-fifth year, which was his father's 145th. But he says\r\nthat his settlement in the land of Canaan, not his going forth\r\nfrom Haran, took place after his father's death; because his\r\nfather was already dead when he purchased the land, and personally\r\nentered on possession of it. But when, on his having\r\nalready settled in Mesopotamia, that is, already gone out of\r\nthe land of the Chaldeans, God says, \"Get thee out of thy\r\ncountry, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_263_263\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_263_263\">[263]</a>\r\nthis means, not that he should cast out his body from thence,\r\nfor he had already done that, but that he should tear away\r\nhis soul. For he had not gone out from thence in mind, if\r\nhe was held by the hope and desire of returning,—a hope and\r\ndesire which was to be cut off by God's command and help,\r\nand by his own obedience. It would indeed be no incredible\r\nsupposition that afterwards, when Nahor followed his father,\r\nAbraham then fulfilled the precept of the Lord, that he should\r\ndepart out of Haran with Sarah his wife and Lot his brother's\r\nson.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-214"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a49510e0479ccf1f602ce231f21634fc66983dced6cc090fdb040435ef70b6cc","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":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xii. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_263_263","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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