Acts 7 verse 4

Acts 7:4

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.  (KJV)

Then going out from the land of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And after his father died, God moved him from there into this land in which you now live.     (IB)

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Retranslation:  ‘Then’ (as a consequence of seeing God reveal Herself as the infinite premise) , Abraham was able to escape from the world of astrology,---- the world that looks outside itself to a material “cause” (looks to the stars) to determine its future, and dwelt in a parched world. After “his father died”----after all Abraham’s allegiance to his prior life is dissolved, God removed Abraham from the land-of-little-water, and settled him in “this land in which you now live,”-----Jerusalem, ------home, heaven!

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NOTES:

1. On page 16 SH, Eddy writes: “A great sacrifice of material things must precede this advanced spiritual understanding.” (Emphasis added.) Can someone tell me what the son’s duty to the father was in those days of Abraham? Abraham did not have Jesus’ saying “let the dead bury the dead” in his day. Abraham had to find his way alone, with God. His story defines spiritual progress. When Abraham did what he could to improve his spiritual position, he was advanced. He left dead and dying belief. Remember, “mortal” existence means “dead or dying.” 
2. “God removed him . . .”   “God metoikizo him . . .” God transferred him as a settler or captive, exiling him from the old world, and setting him in the new world to colonize it. This language made me think of these lines from Science and Health: 

“Pilgrim on earth, they home is heaven. Stranger, thou art a guest of God.” SH 254:31

“It is the task of the sturdy pioneer to hew the tall oak and to cut the rough granite.” p. vii. These are “colonizing” words.

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Then 5119 tote, from (the neuter of) 3588 and 3753; the when, i.e. at the time that (of the past or future, also in consecution):---- that time, then.

consecution (1828 Dict. def.): [L. consecutio, from consequor, to follow; con and sequor, to follow, See Seek.]

1. A following or sequel; train of consequences from premises; series of deductions.
2. Succession; series of things that follow each other; as, a consecution of colors.
3. In astronomy, consecution month is the space between one conjunction of the moon with the sun and another.

deduction (ibid.): [L. deductio, from deduce.

1. The act of deducting.
2. That which is deducted; sum or amount taken from another; defalcation; abatement;   as, this sum is a deduction from the yearly rent.
3. That which is drawn from premises; fact, opinion, or hypothesis, collected from principles or facts stated, or established data; inference; consequence drawn; conclusion; as, this opinion is a fair deduction from the principles you have advanced.

deduce (ibid.): (L. deduco, de and duco, to lead, bring or draw.]

1. To draw from; to bring from.
2. To draw from, in reasoning; to gather a truth, opinion or proposition from premises; to infer something from what precedes. Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke.

going out 1831 exerchomai, from 1537 and 2064; to issue (literally or figuratively):-----come (forth, out), depart (out of), escape, get out, go (abroad, away, forth, out, thence), proceed (forth), spread abroad.

of 1537

land 1093 ge, contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part of the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):-----country, earth, earthly, ground, land, world.

Chaldeans 5466 Chaldaios, probably of Hebrew origin [H3778]; a Chaldaean (i.e. Kasdi), or native of the region of the lower Euphrates:-----Chaldaean.

H3778 kasdi, occasionally (with enclitic) kasdima, towards the Kasdites, into Chaldea, patronymic from H3777 (only in the plural); a Kasdite, or descendant of Kesed; by implication a Chaldaean (as if so descended); also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people):----Chaldeans, Chaldees, inhabitants of Chaldea.

astrology (Origins Dict.): See STAR.

star (ibid.) Gr astra, a star, astron, a constellation; astrologos, an astronomer (literally, star-discourser; logos, from legein, to speak) whence astrologia adopted by L, whence E astrology. Gr astron or, rather, L astrum with compound disastro (dis connoting deviation), an event not favourable to one’s stars, with adj disastroso (cf the L adj astrosus, born under an unlucky star): whence E disaster and disastrous.

lived 2730

in 1722

Haran 5488

from there 2547

after 3326

dying 599 apothnesko, from 575 and 2348; to die off (literally or figuratively):----be dead, death, die, lie-a-dying, be slain (with).

of the 1519/3739

father 3962

of him 848

moved 3351 metoikizo, from the same as 3350; to transfer as a settler or captive, i.e. colonize or exile:-----carry away, remove.

“Pilgrim on earth, they home is heaven. Stranger, thou art a guest of God.” SH

him 846

into 1519

this 5026

land 1093

in which 1519/3739

you 5210

now 3568

dwell 2730