Oecumenius, on Acts 7:2

“Who said: Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.”

“See here again how from the preface Stephen strips off the glory of those very ones, not assigning the glory to the temple, not to the nation, but to God alone. For "the God of glory," instead of "the glorified one," is said, God. This glorified one, working resourcefully out of the helpless, and making the dishonored honorable, will also make us so. For he who arranged wisdom for the helpless people from of old, that same one now has resolved to advance the formerly helpless glorious things toward the resourceful. And to make this credible, Abraham is presented according to the narrative, he who did not deserve the display of God in Mesopotamia by a temple or by sacrifices. And this accounts, as has already been said, for showing that the glorified God is able to do for those things and for us what he did for them, and to bring from obscurity into appearance. And although many hostile nations and kings were brought against Abraham and his seed, some were destroyed, yet what was humbler advanced to greater status. If then the God of glory so inclined concerning those matters, he says, one ought also to consider concerning us that things may not turn out otherwise.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.