At Babel, human beings tried to make a name for themselves. In Genesis 12, God promises to make Abram’s name great. That contrast opens a new chapter in the healing of the world: what pride tries to seize, faith receives from God. Abram leaves because the Lord has spoken, enters a land he does not own, and builds altars before he possesses an inheritance. Then famine comes, and the man who trusted God with his future becomes afraid for his life. The beginning of Abraham’s story holds both the beauty of obedient faith and the weakness that still needs healing. Above both stands the promise that, through this called household, God’s blessing will reach all the families of the earth.
The beginning of Abraham’s story
Genesis 1–11 has shown creation blessed by God and repeatedly wounded by human sin: the fall, the murder of Abel, the violence before the flood, and the proud unity of Babel. The genealogy at the end of chapter 11 narrows the account to Terah’s household. Yet this narrowing serves the world’s salvation. The nations named in Genesis 10 remain within the horizon of the promise in Genesis 12:3. God begins with one family in order to bless many.
Two details from the preceding chapter give the promises their force. Terah’s household has set out toward Canaan but settled in Haran, and Sarai is barren (Genesis 11:30–31). Abram is therefore called beyond a place where the family has stopped, toward a future the household cannot produce for itself. The promise of a great nation is spoken into childlessness. The promise of land is spoken before possession. God’s word gives Abram a future before his circumstances offer a way to reach it.
This chapter begins the patriarchal history that continues through Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Abram and Sarai receive the names Abraham and Sarah later, in Genesis 17; the New Testament usually calls the patriarch Abraham when speaking of the whole story. Brenton’s Scripture below uses spellings such as Sara, Charrhan, Chanaan, Sychem, Bæthel, and Pharao. These correspond to the familiar Sarai, Haran, Canaan, Shechem, Bethel, and Pharaoh.
Genesis 12 belongs together as one study because the promise and the crisis interpret each other. The chapter first asks whether Abram will leave at God’s word; it then shows what happens when the same man faces hunger and danger. Genesis 13 will bring him back to the altar. The covenant will be solemnly established and unfolded in later chapters, especially Genesis 15 and 17. Here we hear the foundational promises and see faith begin to live by them.
The call and the blessing of the nations (Genesis 12:1-3)
1 And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and out of the house of thy father, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. 2 And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. 3 And I will bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
The Lord’s command moves inward: land, kindred, father’s house. Each names a real source of belonging and security. Abram is asked to entrust to God the things by which a person ordinarily knows who he is and where his future lies. The call reaches deeper than a change of address. God becomes the decisive authority for Abram’s life.
The command is followed by promise. Abram must go, but God will make, bless, magnify, and protect. The weight of the future rests on the Lord’s action. Abram’s obedience is essential, yet it responds to grace; it does not manufacture the blessing. This is the beginning of the biblical understanding of faith as entrusting oneself to the God who speaks and acting on His word.
Babel clarifies the contrast. Its builders sought a name through a city and tower that would prevent their scattering (Genesis 11:4). Abram receives the promise of a great name while leaving the securities from which such greatness might normally be built. Pride says that life must be secured by making oneself important. Faith allows God to give a name and a vocation, even when obedience looks like losing one’s place.
The destination is described as the land God will show him. Abram knows the Caller before he possesses the full future. Hebrews 11:8 reads this departure as obedience by faith: he went out without knowing where he was going. Acts 7:2–5 traces the call back to the God of glory’s appearing in Mesopotamia, before the household settled in Haran. Stephen’s account places God’s initiative before possession of the land or construction of the Temple. God was already calling and guiding His servant.
For the Christian, holy departure begins wherever an attachment competes with obedience to Christ. A person may remain in the same home and still have to leave the need to control every outcome, preserve every advantage, or be admired by everyone. Conversely, an outward change can leave those attachments untouched. Abram’s call teaches a surrender of ultimate security to God. It is not a command for every believer to abandon family responsibilities or to treat a strong personal impulse as divine revelation.
The last line of the promise determines its horizon: all the tribes of the earth are to be blessed. Abram’s election, his being chosen by God, has an outward purpose. The protection promised to him safeguards a blessing meant for others. The curse clause is God’s declaration, not Abram’s permission to curse enemies or wield religious privilege against them.
The Gospel announced beforehand
Paul explicitly reads Genesis 12:3 in Galatians 3:8 as the Gospel preached beforehand to Abraham. The promise reaches beyond a flourishing household to God’s saving work among the nations. Paul then explains how it comes to fulfillment: Christ redeems from the curse so that Abraham’s blessing may reach the Gentiles, the peoples outside Israel, and they may receive the promised Spirit through faith (Galatians 3:13–14).
The blessing is therefore deeper than land, wealth, or earthly influence. Its fullness is life in Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Cross stands at the center of the promise’s fulfillment. Christ enters our condition under sin and death to bring us into the Father’s blessing. Abraham’s story is already directed toward this gift, although its fullness will become visible only as the history unfolds.
Galatians 3:26–29 makes the connection personal and ecclesial, belonging to the life of the Church. Those baptized into Christ have put on Christ; those who belong to Him are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. A believer receives this inheritance through union with Christ, not through superior ancestry or a claim to private favor. The Church lives faithfully within Abraham’s blessing when she brings Christ’s mercy to people beyond her familiar circle. A parish that receives strangers, teaches the faith patiently, and serves someone who can offer nothing in return gives concrete expression to the promise’s outward purpose.
Obedience, the tent, and the altar (Genesis 12:4-9)
4 And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Charrhan. 5 And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan. 6 And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Sychem, to the high oak, and the Chananites then inhabited the land. 7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to thy seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who appeared to him. 8 And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Bæthel, and there he pitched his tent in Bæthel near the sea, and Aggai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord. 9 And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.
The first response is beautifully spare: Abram went as the Lord spoke. The narrator gives no speech in which Abram explains his courage. His action answers the command. At seventy-five, he accepts a future whose fulfillment will require more waiting. Faith begins to take bodily form in departure, household decisions, and the carrying of ordinary possessions.
Abram does not travel as an isolated spiritual hero. Sarai, Lot, and a whole household accompany him. The promise is going to shape relationships as well as individual belief. This makes the events in Egypt especially serious: the man whose obedience has brought the household into the land will later make a decision that exposes his wife to danger. The household is the place where the truth of his faith must be lived.
At Shechem, the text places two facts side by side: the Canaanites inhabit the land, and the Lord promises it to Abram’s seed. Arrival has not become ownership. Nor has childlessness become a multitude of descendants. God’s appearing strengthens Abram without immediately removing either difficulty. He learns to live between a word already given and a fulfillment still awaited.
His response is an altar. He marks the place where God has appeared with worship. Farther on, between Bethel and Ai, he pitches his tent, builds another altar, and calls on the Lord’s name. The tent can be moved; the act of worship gives his life its enduring center. His security lies in the God to whom he belongs, even while the place in which he lives remains unsettled.
Calling on the Lord’s name is more than remembering a promise privately. Abram addresses God. Faith becomes prayer, thanksgiving, and dependence. It is possible to speak often about trusting God while seldom actually turning toward Him. The altar exposes that distance. Abram’s response to revelation is communion with the Revealer.
Promise, pilgrimage, and the coming city
Hebrews 11:9–10 joins the tents of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to a city whose builder and maker is God. Verses 13–16 carry the thought farther: the patriarchs confess themselves strangers and pilgrims and desire a heavenly country. Their life in Canaan matters, but their hope comes to rest in the enduring home God prepares.
This gives Christian pilgrimage its proper shape. We work, care for our families, and receive the good things of creation with gratitude, while refusing to ask possessions or achievements to bear the weight of eternal security. The hope of God’s city frees us to use earthly goods generously. We can be responsible without pretending that everything depends on our ability to hold it together.
The altar also helps us understand why prayer and the Church’s worship belong at the center of an unfinished life. We come to the Divine Liturgy while prayers remain unanswered, work remains uncertain, and those we love still need healing. In the Eucharist, our thanksgiving, we receive communion with Christ and offer our lives to God. Abram’s altar is an earlier act of worship, not a description of the Christian sacrament; the spiritual continuity is that God’s people worship Him before the fullness of the inheritance is visible.
Language insight: “seed” and the scope of the promise
In verse 7, “seed” means offspring or descendants. It is collective language, even though it has a singular form. The immediate promise concerns the future of Abram’s family in the land. Galatians 3:16 reads the promises to Abraham and his seed as finding their decisive fulfillment in Christ, and verse 29 includes those who belong to Christ among Abraham’s heirs. Paul’s reading follows the saving purpose of the promises to their fulfillment; it does not make every occurrence of “seed” in Genesis a reference to only one biological descendant. The family history is real, and through that history God brings the promised Savior.
Gems from the Fathers 💎: Faith while fulfillment is delayed
St. John Chrysostom, preaching on Hebrews 11, asks his hearers to look at Abraham’s actual circumstances rather than imagine a life of uninterrupted reward. Abraham left home, lived as a stranger, and saw his descendants share the same unsettled condition. Chrysostom says that Abraham “saw his son dwelling there; and again his grandson saw himself dwelling in a land not his own; yet was he nowise troubled.”1 His point is the patriarch’s patient trust during the long delay of the inheritance. He also acknowledges Abraham’s fear elsewhere in the story. This endurance is a grace learned over a lifetime, not a claim that the patriarch never struggled.
The Father’s reading consoles the person who has obeyed and still has to wait. An unfulfilled prayer does not erase the word of God. Abraham’s tent stands in the promised land, and his altar stands beside it. He can worship there because the promise depends on God’s faithfulness.
The Church’s Voice in Worship ⛪
The Coptic Synaxarium commemorates Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob on 28 Mesra. Its remembrance of Abraham begins with his faith, obedience, and the call of Genesis 12:1–2.2 The Synaxarium is the Church’s account of saints and commemorations, read to remember God’s work in their lives. Abraham is honored as a holy patriarch whose trust prepared the history fulfilled in Christ. Remembering him joins the first departure to the later maturity of his faith and encourages us to persevere through our own unfinished obedience.
Famine and the fear that bends the truth (Genesis 12:10-13)
10 And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land. 11 And it came to pass when Abram drew nigh to enter into Egypt, Abram said to Sara his wife, I know that thou art a fair woman. 12 It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall slay me, but they shall save thee alive. 13 Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of thee, and my soul shall live because of thee.
Famine comes in the land God has promised. Scripture gives no suggestion that the call was false because the land could not immediately sustain Abram’s household. He goes to Egypt to live there temporarily because the famine is severe. The text does not expressly condemn that decision. The moral pressure falls on the strategy he forms as he approaches Egypt.
Abram imagines that the Egyptians will kill him because of Sarai’s beauty. Fear moves from a possible danger to a plan that conceals their marriage. The closing words of his request reveal its center: that things may go well with him and that he may live because of her. His safety is being sought by placing her position as his wife in jeopardy.
This is the chapter’s painful contrast. In verses 1–3, the future is repeatedly entrusted to what God will do. In verses 11–13, Abram tries to secure life by managing what others will think. The servant who trusted God’s word in departure now makes fear the governing voice at the border. Faith has truly begun in him, but it has not yet brought every part of his heart under its obedience.
A similar division can appear in us. We may trust God sincerely in prayer and then hide a fact at work to protect our reputation. We may speak of providence and place the burden of our anxiety on a spouse or child. The issue is not the mere experience of fear. It is the moment at which fear is allowed to excuse deceit or shift danger onto another person.
Sarai must remain visible as a person in this reading. She is Abram’s wife, taken into a powerful ruler’s household after the marriage has been concealed. The chapter does not tell us all that happened there. It does show that God’s intervention concerns her. Her danger cannot be treated simply as a useful stage in her husband’s spiritual growth, and a spouse’s obedience never requires cooperating with deceit or accepting coercion and harm.
The passage calls the fearful person toward truth and the protection of others. A sound response may include seeking counsel, making a practical plan for safety, and honestly naming uncertainty. Trust in God can work through these responsible acts. What Abram’s conduct exposes is the attempt to save oneself at another’s expense.
God protects Sarai and preserves the promise (Genesis 12:14-20)
14 And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt—the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful— 15 that the princes of Pharao saw her, and praised her to Pharao and brought her into the house of Pharao. 16 And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and asses, and men-servants, and women-servants, and mules, and camels. 17 And God afflicted Pharao with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sara, Abram’s wife. 18 And Pharao having called Abram, said, What is this thou hast done to me, that thou didst not tell me that she was thy wife? 19 Wherefore didst thou say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, thy wife is before thee, take her and go quickly away. 20 And Pharao gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had.
The plan produces a bitter appearance of success. Abram is treated well and gains possessions, while Sarai is taken into Pharaoh’s house. Material advantage is no proof that a decision was righteous. The narrator places Abram’s benefit beside his wife’s peril so that we cannot mistake prosperity for God’s approval.
Then God acts. Verse 17 calls Sarai “Abram’s wife,” reaffirming the relationship the strategy has hidden. She belongs within a marriage, not among the goods Pharaoh may acquire or Abram may use. The Lord’s intervention protects her and preserves the household through which His promise will unfold. Divine faithfulness is personal here: God attends to the endangered woman as well as to the future of the promise.
Pharaoh asks the question Abram needs to hear: what have you done to me? The chosen man receives a rebuke from someone outside his household and faith. This reverses the position we might expect. Abram, called to be a means of blessing, has brought trouble upon another household through concealment. God’s servant must be willing to hear a true accusation even from an unexpected mouth. Religious calling does not make us immune to correction.
Abram gives no recorded answer, and the chapter supplies no explicit confession. We should let that silence remain. He leaves with Sarai and his possessions because God has intervened, not because the account celebrates his ingenuity. In Genesis 13:1–4, he returns to the place of his earlier altar and again calls on the Lord’s name. That return offers a fitting next step for the reader: mercy makes renewed prayer possible, and renewed prayer should be joined to amendment of the conduct that caused harm.
An early pattern of deliverance from Egypt
The episode anticipates a pattern that will become much larger in Exodus: descent to Egypt under the pressure of need, danger under Pharaoh, divine affliction, and departure with possessions. The similarity gives this small household’s story significance within Israel’s later history. God preserves the people through whom His purposes will unfold. The episodes are not identical, but Genesis has begun to teach us how to recognize the Lord’s power to deliver.
This pattern eventually leads us toward Christ, the Savior who frees His people from the bondage of sin and death. Abram himself still needs rescue. The fulfillment of the promise will therefore require more than a succession of admirable human examples. It requires the faithful Son, in whom God’s blessing reaches those who cannot save themselves.
Abraham’s faith and its fulfillment in Christ
Genesis 12 opens the story; the New Testament reads its first steps in the light of the whole life and of Christ. Hebrews emphasizes obedient departure and patient pilgrimage. Romans 4 turns especially to Genesis 15:6 and the later promise of a son. James 2:21–23 looks ahead to the offering of Isaac in Genesis 22 and describes faith working with deeds and reaching maturity through them. These texts belong to different moments in Abraham’s life. Together they help us see faith receiving God’s promise, acting on it, and being brought toward fuller trust.
Romans 4:16–25 gives this trust its deepest foundation. Abraham believes in the God who gives life to the dead. Paul brings the reader from the apparent impossibility of descendants to faith in the God who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. Christian faith rests on God’s victorious action, not on the strength of our religious feelings. We obey because He is faithful; we return after failure because Christ has opened the way of forgiveness and new life.
The Gospels place Abraham within the same fulfillment. Matthew begins with Jesus Christ as Son of David and Son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1). In the Magnificat, the Theotokos, Mary the Mother of God, praises the Lord for remembering His mercy to Abraham and his seed (Luke 1:54–55). The child she bears is the fulfillment of God’s faithful remembrance. In John 8:56, Christ speaks of Abraham’s joy at seeing His day. The call that began with departure comes to its deepest fulfillment in the coming of the Son.
Gems from the Fathers 💎: Abraham’s hope reaches Christ
St. Irenaeus reads Abraham’s hope within the unity of God’s saving work. The Creator who called the patriarch is the same God who reveals Himself through His Son. Speaking of Abraham’s prophetic joy, Irenaeus writes that “he desired to see that day, so that he might himself also embrace Christ; and, seeing it through the spirit of prophecy, he rejoiced.”3 This is a reading of Abraham’s wider story in the light of Christ’s words, not a claim that Genesis 12 records every detail of that prophetic knowledge.
Irenaeus then joins Abraham’s rejoicing to Simeon holding Christ and to Mary’s praise at the Lord’s coming. His insight keeps the study from ending with admiration for the patriarch. Abraham’s faith points us to the Person in whom the promise becomes salvation. To share his faith is to receive Christ and allow Christ to make us a blessing to others.
| Promise or pattern in Genesis 12 | Biblical development and fulfillment | Spiritual significance |
|---|---|---|
| Departure at God’s word, before possession | Hebrews 11:8–10; Acts 7:2–5 | Obedience can begin before the future is visible. |
| Blessing for all the tribes of the earth | Galatians 3:8, 13–14 | The blessing reaches the nations through Christ’s redemption and the gift of the Spirit. |
| The promise to Abram’s seed | Galatians 3:16, 26–29; Matthew 1:1 | Christ fulfills the promises; those united to Him become heirs. |
| Tents in the land of promise | Hebrews 11:9–16 | Earthly life is lived in hope of the enduring home God prepares. |
| God’s preservation of a vulnerable household | The deliverance pattern developed in Exodus | The promised blessing advances through God’s saving action, while His servants still need healing. |
Spiritual Fruit 🍇
Obey the word already given. Abram goes as the Lord has spoken. We often ask God to clarify the distant future while postponing a duty already clear: confessing a wrong, ending a deception, forgiving without retaliating, or caring faithfully for someone entrusted to us. Choose one such duty and carry it out in prayerful dependence. Obedience does not purchase God’s favor; it allows faith to become an actual response to His grace.
Let blessing pass through your life. The promise to Abram reaches toward all the families of the earth. Bring one person beyond your usual circle into your prayer and care: a newcomer at church, a neighbor in difficulty, someone without stable housing, or a relative from whom you have withdrawn. Offer a specific act of mercy without requiring gratitude or religious agreement as payment. The gift received in Christ becomes fruitful when another person is loved through it.
Build the altar while life is unfinished. Abram worships before he owns the land or sees the promised descendants. Give prayer a place in the day before the problems are solved. A short, attentive prayer, a Psalm read with care, and faithful participation in the Divine Liturgy can keep anxiety from becoming the only voice you hear. Bring your uncertainty to Christ with thanksgiving for what He has already given.
Refuse to make someone else carry the cost of your fear. Abram’s request centers on his survival and endangers Sarai. Examine the places where anxiety becomes concealment, pressure, or control. If you have burdened a spouse, child, colleague, or servant in this way, name the action without blaming your fear on them. Seek forgiveness and make a concrete repair. Where danger or coercion is present, protection and trustworthy help take priority.
Receive correction as an opening for return. Pharaoh’s rebuke shows that a true word can come from someone we would not have chosen as a teacher. Listen to the truth of the correction before defending your position. God’s mercy gives hope to the person who has failed, and that hope becomes fruitful in renewed honesty, confession, and changed conduct. The return to Abram’s altar in the next chapter keeps failure from being the last word.
Abram has arrived in the promised land, but he is still living in a tent. He can call on the Lord before he knows how the promise will be fulfilled. We too may come to Christ with an unfinished life, a real fear, and a duty we can obey today. Lord Jesus Christ, make our trust truthful, our worship steadfast, and the blessing we receive from You a gift for those around us.
Teaching Notes
Central teaching burden: God initiates the promise; faith responds through obedience and worship; trial reveals where that trust still needs healing. Keep the blessing of the nations and its fulfillment in Christ in view throughout the Egypt episode. Read the four Scripture sections in sequence rather than isolating the command to leave from the crisis that follows.
The call and the blessing of the nations (Genesis 12:1-3)
- Ask: How does God’s promise to make Abram’s name great answer Babel’s attempt to make a name, and why does the promise end with all the tribes of the earth?
- Watch for: Separate Abram’s particular call to leave from a general permission to neglect family duties. Read Galatians 3:8, 13–14, 26–29 closely enough to show that blessing means redemption, the Spirit, and belonging to Christ, rather than guaranteed prosperity.
Obedience, the tent, and the altar (Genesis 12:4-9)
- Ask: Why does Abram build altars while both the land and the descendants remain promises, and what does Hebrews 11:9–16 add to our reading of his tent?
- Watch for: Faith here is active dependence on God, not passive waiting. Use the distinction between the earlier altar and Christian Eucharistic worship without collapsing them into the same rite.
Famine and the fear that bends the truth (Genesis 12:10-13)
- Ask: Where does practical concern for survival turn into protecting oneself at Sarai’s expense, and how can the same change occur in ordinary family or working life?
- Watch for: The chapter does not expressly condemn seeking food in Egypt. Focus on the concealed marriage and the endangered wife; do not turn Sarai into a prop or require readers to disclose personal experiences of harm.
God protects Sarai and preserves the promise (Genesis 12:14-20)
- Ask: What do Abram’s material gains, God’s intervention, and Pharaoh’s rebuke each reveal about the difference between advantage and faithfulness?
- Watch for: The narrative does not record Abram’s confession. Present Genesis 13:1–4 as the next chapter’s return to worship, and keep divine rescue distinct from approval of his strategy.
New Testament synthesis: Hebrews 11 reads the departure and pilgrimage; Galatians 3 explains worldwide blessing in Christ; Romans 4 draws on later promises and leads to resurrection faith; James 2 reads the later offering of Isaac. These are complementary windows onto a developing life, not four descriptions of the same event.
Worship connection: The 28 Mesra commemoration is verified in the Synaxarium. It is not evidence that Genesis 12:1–20 is assigned as one full lectionary reading. No specific full-chapter assignment is asserted here.
Sources
Embedded Scripture is from Brenton’s English Septuagint (LXX). New Testament references and brief quotations use NKJV.
Genesis 11:4, 30–31; Genesis 12:1–20; Genesis 13:1–4. Brenton text of Genesis 12 🔗.
Acts 7:2–5; Hebrews 11:8–16; Galatians 3:6–29; Romans 4:16–25; James 2:21–23; Matthew 1:1; Luke 1:54–55; John 8:56. These references distinguish the opening call from the later stages of Abraham’s life and interpret the promise through Christ.
St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews, Homily XXIII, especially §2 on Hebrews 11:8–9 and §§3–4 on the awaited promises. NPNF, First Series, vol. 14 🔗.
St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies IV.7.1, Abraham’s prophetic joy and its fulfillment in Christ; ANF, vol. 1, translated by Alexander Roberts and William Rambaut 🔗.
Coptic Synaxarium, 28 Mesra, commemoration of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, English text at St-Takla 🔗.
Optional geographical reference: W. Hughes, Land of Canaan, during the lives of the Patriarchs (1838), National Library of Israel / Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, public-domain historical atlas map 🔗.
Footnotes
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St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews, Homily XXIII, §2, on Hebrews 11:8–9; NPNF, First Series, vol. 14 🔗. ↩
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Coptic Synaxarium, 28 Mesra, “The Commemoration of the Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” English text at St-Takla 🔗. ↩
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St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies IV.7.1; ANF, vol. 1, translated by Alexander Roberts and William Rambaut 🔗. ↩