John Bengel Commentary - Acts 7:4 - 7:4

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 7:4 - 7:4


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Act 7:4. Χαλδαίων, of the Chaldees) whose land belonged to Mesopotamia.-μετὰ, after that) Abraham, whilst Terah lived in Haran, had in some measure his paternal home in Haran, only acting the part of a stranger or foreign sojourner in the land of Canaan: but when his father was dead, he began altogether to have his home solely in the land of Canaan. It is not without mystery (symbolical meaning), that the father of Abraham did not enter the land of Canaan: for so it was evident, that it was not by the right of worldly inheritance that this land fell to himself and his posterity.-νῦν, now) at this present day.