New Testament reading

Three New Testament passages are treated as cross-references, each from the BSB, and no Greek form is claimed. Acts 7:2–4 has the God of glory appear to Abraham in Mesopotamia, before Haran, and states that after his father died God brought him into the land. That sits with the question of when the Lord spoke (see the note on 12:1, Gen 11:31–32 → Acts 7:2–4, and the Genesis 11 notes on Terah). Gal 3:8 reads the blessing of 12:3 as the gospel promised in advance: “All nations will be blessed through you.” That reading is set beside Keil’s passive view and Driver’s remark that in either case the thought remains, in a wider sense, a Messianic one; no ruling is given on the niphal. Heb 11:8 says that by faith Abraham, when called, “obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.” That is the lean taken from 12:4: Abram goes as the Lord has spoken. Acts 3:25, Gal 3:14, 16, and Romans 4 stay as lookup, or are pointed to; the Romans 4 notes on the promise through faith are not opened again here. Gal 3:16’s reading of “seed” is noted with the land promise and is not decided.