By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
From the antediluvian saints he passes to the patriarchs of Israel, to whom "the promises" belonged.
Called - by God (Genesis 12:1). So 'Aleph ('). But A Delta, Vulgate [o], read, 'He that is called Abraham,' his name being changed from Abram to Abraham, when God made with him and his seed a covenant, sealed by, circumcision, many years after his call out of Ur. 'Abraham (father of nations, Genesis 17:5; his becoming which was the object of God's bringing him out of Ur) obeyed (the command of God: to be understood), so as to go out,' etc.
Which he should after receive. He had not fully received even this promise when he went out, for it was not explicitly given until he had reached Canaan (Genesis 12:1; Genesis 12:6-7). When the promise was given him the Canaanite was still in the land, and himself a stranger. lt is in the new heaven and new earth that he shall receive his personal inheritance; so believers sojourn on earth as strangers, while the ungodly and Satan lord it here; but at Christ's coming that same earth, the scene of the believer's conflict, shall be the inheritance of Christ and His saints.