Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
From the antediluvian saints he passes to the patriarchs of Israel, to whom "the promises" belonged.
called—by God (Genesis 12:1). 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," etc.
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 12:6-7). 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.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hebrews 11:8:
Genesis 12:1
Acts 8:26-28
Hebrews 11:13-16
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