For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
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Gill's Exposition
And truly if they had been mindful of that country,.... Chaldea, which was Abraham's country:
from whence they came out; as Abraham and Sarah did, in person, and their posterity in them:
they…
Barnes' Notes
For they that say such things ... - That speak of themselves as having come into a land of strangers; and that negotiate for a small piece of land, not to cultivate, but to bury their dead. So we…
Adam Clarke
Declare plainly that they seek a country - A man's country is that in which he has constitutional rights and privileges; no stranger or sojourner has any such rights in the country where he sojourns.…
The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old Testament times, and these may be divided into two…
Cambridge Bible
that they seek a country Rather, "that they are seeking further after a native land." Hence comes the argument of the next verse that it was not their old home in Chaldea for which they were yearning,…
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