Abraham and Common Grace (3)

In our previous essay, we were engaged with the late Dr. A. Kuyper's view of the purpose of Abraham's immigration to Canaan and with the construction he placed upon the state of existence in which the afore­said patriarch as a sojourner in Canaan acquiesced. According to Kuyper, Abraham was sent on his way to Palestine for the express purpose of interweaving his life with that of the tribes in whose midst he took up his residence, in order that an indissoluble tie might be laid between special...