Genesis 12:1 (WEB)
Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
Catechism · 2
I Believe
“The Letter to the Hebrews, in its great eulogy of the faith of Israel's ancestors, lays special emphasis on Abraham's faith: "By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go."” — Catechism footnote: Heb 11:8; cf. Gen 12:1-4.
The Revelation of God
“In order to gather together scattered humanity God calls Abram from his country, his kindred and his father's house,” — Catechism footnote: Gen 12:1
Fathers and councils · 21
Eusebius of Caesarea
“And there is also a work of his On Emigration,and one On the life of a Wise Man made perfect in Righteousness, or On unwritten Laws;and still further the work On Giants or On the Immutability of God,and a first, second, third, fourth and fifth book On the proposition, that Dreams according to Moses are sent by God.” — editor's note: περὶ ἀποικίας: De Migratione Abrahami. Upon Gen. xii. 1–6. The work is still extant, and is given by Mangey, I. 436–472. See Schürer, p. 844.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.4Conference III
“…and all his dear relations, and his father’s house; when the Lord said “Get thee out from thy country and from thy kinsfolk and from thy father’s house.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1.
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“And we read that the Lord charged Abraham to do all these three at once, when He said to him “Get thee out from thy country, and thy kinsfolk, and thy father’s house.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1.
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“…seen are eternal;” that so we may be found worthy to hear that highest utterance, which was spoken to Abraham: “and come into a land which I will show thee,” which clearly shows that unless a man has made those three former renunciations with all earnestness of mind, he cannot attain to this fourth, which is granted…” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For Christ came in the flesh from that very nation of the Hebrews with a view to the keeping of which as a people distinct from the other nations, God separated Abraham from his own country and his own kindred.” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“But a little while after, it is somewhat more clearly said, “And the Lord appeared unto Abraham, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1, 7
Read the whole comment“For, pray, because it is written, “And the Lord God said unto Abraham;” and a little after, “And the Lord God appeared unto Abraham;” were these things, for this reason, not done by angels?” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1
Read the whole comment“…of Terah, the father of Abraham, we next read, “And the Lord said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house,” etc., it is not to be supposed, because this follows in the order of the narrative, that it also followed in the chronological order of events.” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…name; and thou shall be blessed: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all tribes of the earth be blessed.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“…seed should possess the land of Canaan, which was intimated when it was said, “Go into a land that I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great nation;” but the other far more excellent, concerning not the carnal but the spiritual seed, by which he is the father, not of the one nation of Israel, but of all…” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1, 2.
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John Chrysostom
“I mean this: He had said, “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and I will give thee this land.” ( Gen. xii. 1, 7.)” — the author cites it
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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.
Read the whole comment“Like Abraham, you desire to leave your country and kindred, to forsake Mesopotamia and the Chaldæans, to enter into the promised land.” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment““Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred unto a land that I will show thee.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1.
Read the whole comment“To Abraham it is said: “Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Like Abraham your mother heard the words: “get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, unto a land that I will shew thee;” and not only that but the Lord’s command given through Jeremiah: “flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Or if you will be perfect, go out with Abraham from your country and from your kindred, and go whither you know not.” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1; Heb. xi. 8.
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Ambrose of Milan
“First there is our father Abraham, who was formed and called for the instruction of generations to come.” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1 ff.
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Tertullian
The 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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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…bondage of his father’s gods, she is the daughter as well as the mother of the free; he went out from kindred and home for the sake of the land of promise, she was the occasion of his exile; for on this head alone I venture to claim for her an honour higher than that of Sarah; he set forth on so noble a…” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1; Heb. xi. 8.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“But in the passage, “Come forth from thy land and from thy kindred, and hither into a land which I shall show thee,” this law, he says, is permissive; for one who is so disposed may depart, and one who is not so disposed may remain.” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 1.
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Cross-references · 28
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in Catechism §59.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.15.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.15.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.15.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.15.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.15.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.4.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §59.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.
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