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Genesis 12:4

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Genesis 12:4 (WEB)

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Catechism · 2

I Believe

  • §145Article 1 · I BelieveRead at vatican.va

    “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.

In the Old Testament

  • §2570Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va

    “When God calls him, Abraham goes forth "as the Lord had told him";” — Catechism footnote: Gen 12:4.

Fathers and councils · 5

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

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