Acts 7:4 (WEB)
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living.
Fathers and councils · 3
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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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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Augustine of Hippo
“So that when Stephen adds, “Then Abraham went out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran,” this does not point out what took place after God spoke to him (for it was not after these words of God that he went out of the land of the Chaldeans, since he…” — editor's note: Acts vii. 4.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.