Study Desk

In faith, all these died - not bearing away the promises, but, from afar, beholding and saluting them, and confessing that, strangers and sojourners, were they upon the land.

For, they who such things as these are saying, make it clear that, of a paternal home they are in quest;

And, if indeed of that they had been mindful, from which they had come out, they might, in that case, have had an opportunity, to return;

But, now, after a better one, are they reaching, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be invoked as, their God, - for he hath prepared for them, a city.