And he said unto him
After he had expressed his faith in him, and in his word, and the
blessedness of a justifying righteousness came openly upon him,
and he was declared a justified person:
I [am] the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees;
not only called him, but brought him out of it; not out of a
furnace there, as the Jews fable; but out of a place so called,
an idolatrous one, where fire was worshipped, and from whence it
might have its name; God had brought him out of this wicked
place, and separated him from the men of it, and directed him to
the land of Canaan for the following end and purpose:
to give thee this land to inherit it;
to be an inheritance to his posterity for ages to come; he gave
him the promise of it, and in some sense the possession of it, he
being now in it; and he mentions his having brought him out of
Chaldea into it, to confirm his faith in the promise of it; that
that God who had called him, and brought him from thence, and had
protected him, and given him victory over his enemies, was able
to make good, and would make good the promise and grant of this
land for an inheritance to him, that is, to his posterity.