Chapter 18.—Of the Repeated
Address of God to Abraham, in Which He Promised the Land of Canaan
to Him and to His Seed.
Abraham, then, having departed out
of Haran in the seventy-fifth year of his own age, and in the
hundred and forty-fifth of his father’s, went with Lot, his
brother’s son, and Sarah his wife, into the land of Canaan, and
came even to Sichem, where again he received the divine oracle, of
which it is thus written: “And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said unto him, Unto thy seed will I give this land.” Nothing is promised here about that seed in which he is made the
father of
all nations, but only about that by which he is the father of the
one Israelite nation; for by this seed that land was
possessed.
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