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
“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
“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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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.
Read the whole comment“Again we read, “And Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 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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Augustine of Hippo
“Now Abraham was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.”” — editor's note: Gen. xii. 4.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Catechism §2570.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
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.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.15.
