Abraham’s Calling

When God calls Abram, first out of Ur of the Chal­dees and later out of Haran and isolates him from his kin and from his father's house to make him a stranger in a strange land, the history of the Covenant of God in the world, enters upon a new dispensation. It is not a new work that is begun with the appearance of Abram on the stage of the history of God's covenant; it is not a new covenant that is established with him. For God's cove­nant is always one and the same. With Abraham the covenant...