...these things were inseparable from the blessings promised, nothing is more plain. " Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, Get " thee out of thy country,...thy " name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing." This land being promised to Abraham for a possession, the command given to him to go and possess it...

...promise before treatoil of. The first mention of it, we have Gen. xii. 1 — 3. " Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy country, and...land that I will shew thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thon shalt be a blessing. And I will...

...here intended was, for the substance of it, what God made to Abraham, Gen. xii, 2, 3. "I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, &nd I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all the families...

...promise contained in the latter verse, — " And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great : and thou shalt be a blessing," depends for its fulfilment upon Abram's obedience to the previous command — " Get thee out of thy...

...with his family from Ur in Chaldasa (a) to Haran in Mesopotamia, and there died. " Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy country, and...that I will shew thee; and' I will make of thee a great 'nation, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed (b)" This is the second promise...

...with his family from Ur in Chaldaea (Vi^ to Haran in Mesopotamia, and there died. " Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy country, and...land that I will shew thee; and I will make of thee a great nation, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed (b)T This is the second promise...

...and gospel in the world ; and to relieve those that are in distress, in Gen. xii. 2. ' I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou ' shalt be a blessing.' And, in Deut. xxvi. H. ' Thou shalt ' rejoice in ever}- good thing which the Lord thy God hath ' given unto...

...and gospel in the world i and to relieve those that are in distress, in Gen. xii. 2. ' I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou ' shalt be a blessing.' And, in Deut. xxvi. 11. ' Thou shalt * rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath ' given unto...

...house, unto a land that I will shew thee : 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all...

...this occasion, Gapnio applied to him with prophetic accuracy the remarkable language of Jehovah to Abraham : " Get thee out of thy country, and from...from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew ' .It is amusing enough to hear the terms in which M. Baillet mentions the intimacy which from this...