Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 7:3

3 And said unto him , Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

This command given unto Abraham, we read of, Gen. 12.1, 5, 6. and is here the rather spoken of by St. Stephen, to prove that Abraham was in the favour of God, and did truly serve him, before he ever saw the Land of Canaan, and before the ceremonial Law was given by Moses, and much more before the Temple was built; and therefore it could not be blasphemy in him, to hold that God might be served without those ceremonies, and worshipped elsewhere than in Ierusalem.

This was the glory of Abrahams faith, that it submitted absolutely to God, and enabled Abraham to go he knew not whither, Hebr. 11.8. for God did not so much as name the place he would have him go unto.