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Selected Verse: Hebrews 11:14 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Heb 11:14 |
King James |
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
For--proof that "faith" (Heb 11:13) was their actuating principle.
declare plainly--make it plainly evident.
seek--Greek, "seek after"; implying the direction towards which their desires ever tend.
a country--rather as Greek, "a fatherland." In confessing themselves strangers here, they evidently imply that they regard not this as their home or fatherland, but seek after another and a better. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 should think of any strange people coming among us now - who lived in tents; who frequently changed their residence; who became the purchasers of no land except to bury their dead, and who never spake of becoming permanent residents. We should think that they were in search of some place as their home, and that they had not yet found it. Such people were the Hebrew patriarchs. They lived and acted just as if they had not yet found a permanent habitation, but were traveling in search of one. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Declare plainly (ἐμφαμίζουσιν)
oP. See on Joh 14:21. Occasionally in lxx. Rend. "make it manifest."
They seek a country (πατρίδα ἐπιζητοῦσιν)
The verb is found in lxx, chiefly in the sense of seeking after God or another deity. See Kg2 1:3, Kg2 1:6; Kg2 3:11; Kg2 8:8; Kg2 22:18; Ch2 18:6. Comp. ἐπιζητουμένη πόλις a city sought after (Zion), Isa 62:12. Πατρίς is a native country; a fatherland. Only here and in Gospels and Acts. Quite often in lxx. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| They who speak thus show plainly that they seek their own country - That they keep in view, and long for, their native home. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. These, by declaring that they felt themselves strangers and sojourners, professed their faith in a heavenly country and state, and looked beyond the grave for a place of happiness. No intelligent Jew could suppose that Canaan was all the rest which God had promised to his people. |
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.