It is this conviction which in the main explains Abraham. He could not rest in the city of Ur or be satisfied with its achievement. God had called and revealed to his soul that man's work could only endure and be stable as it was directed and shaped according to the eternal thougtits and purposes of God. And sò we are told he rose up and Went forth looking for a city that Rath the foundations whose architect and builder is God.
Abraham's individuality and the old world setting of his mission are secondary to hig spiritual insight and the meaning of his work. He was the first of a great succession which runs through the story of the Bible, and talking in both seer and prophet, culminates in Christ and the king. dom of God. Common to them all is the conviction that the only enduring foundation and inspiration of community life is faith, through achievement. And so we read of Abraham, and it is true in essence of those who succeeded him, that in faith he moved among' the" eémmunities of men and builded altars to God.
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