Genesis 12:2 (WEB)
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Catechism · 3
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.
Sacramentals
“Sacramentals derive from the baptismal priesthood: every baptized person is called to be a "blessing," and to bless.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 12:2; Lk 6:28; Rom 12:14; 1 Pet 3:9.
The Church in God's Plan
“The remote preparation for this gathering together of the People of God begins when he calls Abraham and promises that he will become the father of a great people.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 12:2; 15:5-6.
Fathers and councils · 6
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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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“…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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Jerome
“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.
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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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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §1669.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.16.
Cited together in Catechism §1669.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §1669.