וַיֵּרָ֤א יְהוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לְזַ֨רְעֲךָ֔ אֶתֵּ֖ן אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את וַיִּ֤בֶן שָׁם֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ לַיהוָ֖ה הַנִּרְאֶ֥ה אֵלָֽיו׃
И явился Господь Авраму и сказал: 'Семени твоему дам землю эту'; и построил там жертвенник Господу, Который явился ему.
That the Worse is wont to Attack the Better
[159] Do you not see that Abraham, when he had “forsaken land and kindred and his father’s house,” i.e. the body, sense, and speech (Gen. 12:1), begins to meet with the powers of Him that IS? For when he has gone out from all his house, the Law says that “God appeared to him” (Gen. 12:7), showing that He clearly manifests Himself to him that escapes from things mortal and mounts up into a soul free from the encumbrance of this body of ours.