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Sarai and Lot and moved by stages p hechem and Bethel
into the land of Canaan (12: 1-9). ,We might compare
the language of Stephen (Acts 7:2-*4j: .here ,we read that
the call from “the God of glory” came to Abraham.“when
he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran”; that
“he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, and’dwelt in
Haran; and from thence, when his father was dead, God
removed him into this land, wherein ye,now dwell.” This
language would seem to indicate that ,he was under God’s
direction from the very first, and tipued to be under
this Divine direction throughout entire pilgrimage.
Murphy (MG, 264, 265): “Abranz~tolok. He is now the
leader of the little colony, as Terah wp, before his death.
Sarai, as well as Lot, is now named. ,The gainiizg they had
gained during the five years of residence in Haran. If
Jacob became comparatively rich in six years (Gen, 30:43) ,
so might Abram, with the divine blessing, in five. The
souls they bad gotteiz-the bondservants they had acquired.
Where there is a large stock of cattle, there must be a
corresponding number of servants to attend to them.
Abram and Lot entered the land of promise as men of
substance. They are in a postition of independence. The
Lord is realizing to Abram the blessing promised. They
start for the land of Kenaan, and at length arrive there.
This event is made as important as it ought to be in our
minds by the mode in which it is stated.”
However, it would be well, I think, for the student to
be acquainted with A. Gosman’s theory of the two divine
calls (CDHCG, 392, n.) as follows: “‘There is no dis-
crepancy between Moses and St. Stephen. Stephen’s design
was, when he pleaded before the Jewish Sanhedrin, to show
that God’s revelations were not limited to Jerusalem and
Judea, but that He had first spoken to the father of Abram
in an idolatrow land, Ur of the Chaldees. But Moses dwells
specially on Abram’s call from Haran, because Abram’s
obedience to that call was the proof of his faith (Words-
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