Acts 7:2 (WEB)
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Fathers and councils · 6
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And He gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begat Isaac.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 2–8.
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Basil the Great
“If it always and everywhere implies ministry, let them tell us to what superior the God of glory and Father of the Christ is subordinate.” — editor's note: Ps. xxix. 3; Acts vii. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For Stephen, too, in the Acts of the Apostles, relates these things in that manner in which they are also written in the Old Testament: “Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken,” he says; “The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 2
Read the whole comment“…in Charran, and said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, and come into the land which I will show thee.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“Does this, then, contradict what Stephen says, “The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran?”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 2.
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Tertullian
“The exuberance of the Scythians fertilizes the Persians; the Phœnicians gush out into Africa; the Phrygians give birth to the Romans; the seed of the Chaldeans is led out into Egypt; subsequently, when transferred thence, it becomes the Jewish race.” — editor's note: Comp. Gen. xi. 26–xii. 5 with Acts vii. 2–4, 15, 45, and xiii. 17–19.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.16.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.16.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.