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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into a land which I shall show thee." "And from thy kindred." How then saith the Scripture, that Abraham's father was willing to go out? Hence we learn, that it was in consequence of Abraham's vision, that his father was moved to join in the migration. "Get thee out of thy kindred." Here he shows how far these men are from being children of Abraham, how obedient he was. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
"Go out of your land and from your kindred." How then does Scripture say that Abraham's father wished to go out (see Gen. 11:31), while here it says that Abraham was told "go out of your land"? From this we conclude that the appearance of God to Abraham influenced his father, and he wished to go out from the land of the Chaldeans. But by this very thing Stephen shows that the Jews are not children of Abraham, because he, having left both his fatherland and his relatives, showed obedience, while they are disobedient.
Western Saints
Bede
"Leave your country and your kindred and come into the land I will show you." Then he left the land, etc. The land and kindred of Abraham refers to the homeland and race of the Chaldeans, from where he had long since left, who now lived in Mesopotamia, but because he left with hope of returning and longing, he hears from the Lord: "Leave your country." Not to physically move himself, which he had already done, but to remove the love of it from his mind. …
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