Genesis 11:31 (WEB)
Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
Fathers and councils · 4
Tertullian
“Lot, withal, the brother of Abraham, proves that it was for the merits of righteousness, without observance of the law, that he was freed from the conflagration of the Sodomites.” — editor's note: i.e., nephew. See Gen. xi. 31; xii. 5.
Read the whole commentThe Law of Change, or Mutation, Universal. Draw we now our material from some other source, lest Punichood either blush or else grieve in the midst of Romans. To change her habit is, at all events, the stated…
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Jerome
“In this forty-fourth psalm God speaks to the human soul that, following the example of Abraham, it should go out from its own land and from its kindred, and should leave the Chaldeans, that is the demons, and should dwell in the country of the living, for…” — editor's note: Gen. xi. 31; xii. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For the narrative runs thus: “And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarah his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and led them forth out of the region of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; and he came into Haran, and dwelt there.”” — editor's note: Gen. xi. 31.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in The City of God XVI.13.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.13.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.13.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.13.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.13.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.13.