8. From the antediluvian saints he passes to the patriarchs of Israel, to whom "the promises" belonged. called —by God ( :- ). The oldest manuscripts and Vulgate read, "He that was called Abraham," his name being changed from Abram to Abraham, on the occasion of God's making with him and his seed a covenant sealed by circumcision, many years after his call out of Ur. "By faith, he who was (afterwards) called Abraham ( father of nations, Genesis 17:5 , in order to become which was the design of God's bringing him out of Ur) obeyed (the command of God: to be understood in this reading), so as to go out, " c. which he should after receive —He had not fully received even this promise when he went out, for it was not explicitly given him till he had reached Canaan ( Genesis 12:1 Genesis 12:6 ; Genesis 12:7 ). When the promise of the land was given him the Canaanite was still in the land, and himself a stranger; it is in the new heaven and new earth that he shall receive his personal inheritance promised him; so believers sojourn on earth as strangers, while the ungodly and Satan lord it over the earth; but at Christ's coming that same earth which was the scene of the believer's conflict shall be the inheritance of Christ and His saints. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"
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