{When his father was dead} (meta to apothanein auton).
Meta with the accusative of the articular infinitive and the
accusative of general reference (auton), regular Greek idiom.
In Ge 11:32 it is stated that Terah died at Haran at the age of
205. There are various explanations of the discrepancy, but no
one that seems certain. It is possible (Hackett, Felten) that
Abraham is mentioned first in Ge 11:26 because he became the
most prominent and was really younger than Haran his brother who
died before the first migration who was really sixty years older
than Abraham. According to this view Terah was 130 years old at
the birth of Abraham, leaving Abraham 75 at the death of Terah
(205). {Wherein ye now dwell} (eis h(886e) humeis nun katoikeite).
Note eis in the sense of en as often. Note also emphatic use
of humeis (ye) and now (
un).
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