Alexandros notas biography of abraham

I.  His Call. (Gen. xii.)
THE name of this great patriarch means father----"father of a great multitude."  It is akin to Abba.  Abba: Abraham.  Mankind has three principal fathers of races; Adam, father of us all; Noah, father of the post-diluvian world, and Abraham, father of the faithful.  The first, whose name connected him with the dust from which his frame was formed, fell: in him all die.  The second, whose name signifies "rest," passed safely through the flood, and re-peopled the renewed earth, the lively type of Him who saves and brings us into the rest of God.  The third, whose name links him with a mighty posterity, countless as the sand, innumerable and enduring as the starry host, brought forth that nation which brought forth the Messiah, who has brought forth the Chur