Illustrated bible History - Catholic Apologetics Information

SECOND EPOCH.
The Age of the Patriarchs.-Election and Greatness of
the Israelites.-Fmin Abraharn to Moses.
(zoo0 to 1500 B. C.)
CHAPTER IX.
As God hat11 called every one, so let him walk.-I. Car., 7,17.
MONGST tbe multitude of the wicked there was one
A just and upright ltman. Hc was called Abram. The
Lord chose him, that, through him and his postcrity,'thc
true faith and hope in the promised Redcerner rnight be prcserved
and propagatedx on the earth. He said to him : '' Go
forth out of thy country and from thy kindred, and out of thy
father's house, and come into the land which I will how
thcc, and I will m%ke of thee n great nation. I will bless
thee and magnify thy namc, and thou shalt be blcsscd; and
in thee shall all the kinclrcd of the earth be blessed."
2. The father of Abram hacl gone to settlc in ChnIdea,s aild
had taken up his abode at IIaran, 1vit.11 his reldives; but,
as idolntyy4 had at last ~nndc its way even into tlrot family,
the Lord called Abrnm forth from amongst his kindretl.
Abma~n believed the. word of God, and instantly net out for
Chnllaan, taking with him Sarrti, his wife, uild Lot, his
~~ephcw, and his servtz11t.s nncl his 11erds of cnttlc, After a
long journey he arrived in Ule limd of Cl~nnrta~~: ancl came to
Sichern, He was then sr?vt?nty-five years olcl.
POS-TUB'-ITY, descendants, those who come aflei.. Y PROPA-G,\'-TED
extet~detl, carried from place to place. 3 C ~ (pr. ~ ICal-dee'-a), ~ - a ~
country of ancient Asia. I-no~'-a-~nl-, the \\-orship of false gods.
6Cn~'-h'~~~ (pr. Ka'-nan); ncountry of Asia, now called Palestine, or
IIoly Land. (18)