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Acts 7:2

Stephen’s Address: The Call of Abraham

1 Then the high priest said, “Are these things so?”

2 And he said, ^a“Brethren and fathers, listen: The ^bGod of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in ^cHaran,

3 and said to him, ^a‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’

4 Then ^ahe came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was ^bdead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.

5 And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, ^aHe promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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DEFENSE AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN. (Acts 7:1-60)

The God of glory—A magnificent appellation, fitted at the very outset to rivet the devout attention of his audience; denoting not that visible glory which attended many of the divine manifestations, but the glory of those manifestations themselves, of which this was regarded by every Jew as the fundamental one. It is the glory of absolutely free grace.

appeared unto our father Abraham before he dwelt in Charran, and said, etc.—Though this first call is not expressly recorded in Genesis, it is clearly implied in Genesis 15:7 and Nehemiah 9:7; and the Jewish writers speak the same language.

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