For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
For - Proof that "faith" (Hebrews 11:13) actuated them.
Declare plainly, [ emfanizousin (G1718)] - make it evident.
Seek, [ epizeetousin (G1934)] - 'seek after:' implying toward what their desires ever tend.
A country, [ patrida (G3968)] - 'a fatherland.' In confessing themselves strangers here, they evidently regard not this as their fatherland, but seek after a better.
Verse 14. _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 wher...
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 shou...
IV. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Faith in regard to creation and salvation (Hebrews 11:1)_ 2. The patience of faith (Hebrews 11:8) 3. The energy of faith (Hebrews 11:23
Passing now from the men of the primeval world, the writer comes to the patriarchs, and especially to Abraham, who stands out in the OT as the chief example of faith. Abraham showed his faith by his o...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
All these died without obtaining possession of the promises. They only saw them from far away and greeted them from afar, and they admitted that they were strangers and sojourners upon the earth. Now...
DECLARE PLAINLY. Greek. _emphanizo._ See Hebrews 9:24. App-106. COUNTRY. a (true) home. Greek. _patris_. Only here and seven times in the Gospels....
_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 yearnin...
CH. 11. THE HEROES OF FAITH The main task of the writer has now been performed, but the remainder of the Epistle had also a very important purpose. It would have been fatal to the peace of mind of a J...
ὋΤΙ ΠΑΤΡΊΔΑ ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥ͂ΣΙΝ. “_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, but...
_SOME WHO LIVED BY FAITH -- HEBREWS 11:4-31:_ The writer of Hebrews has now set forth what faith is and how faith works. He proceeds to list a "Hall of fame" of Old Testament characters who lived 'by...
ΤΟΙΑΎΤΑ _асс. pl. от_ ΤΟΙΟΎΤΟΣ (G5108) таковой, ΛΈΓΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΈΜΦΑΝΊΖΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΕΜΦΑΝΊΖΩ (G1718) проявлять, показывать, прояснять, ΠΑΤΡΊΔΑ...
DECLARE PLAINLY THAT THEY SEEK A COUNTRY.— This translation by no means comes up to the spirit and beauty of the original. The word πατριδα (derived from πατερ, _a father,_) does not signify a _countr...
B. _The patriarchal: faith in God plus faith in His promises. Hebrews 11:8-27_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 11:8-27 Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place
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1 Faith is neither "substance" nor "evidence", as is the usual rendering of this passage. The word "substance" is changed to "confidence" in most later translations, as this word seems to agree with i...
HEROES OF FAITH The Achievements of Faith, illustrated from the annals of Israel, beginning with the patriarchs and coming down to the martyrs. The writer has already mentioned faith as a necessary co...
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Then follows a series of illustrations of the power of faith taken from the history of the Hebrew people. The first is that by faith men know that the ages have been fashioned by the Word of God. Afte...
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(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...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
It is not a definition of this principle, that the epistle gives us at the commencement of Chapter 11, but a declaration of its powers and action. Faith realises (gives substance to) that which we hop...
FOR THEY THAT SAY SUCH THINGS,.... That they are strangers and pilgrims on earth: DECLARE PLAINLY THAT THEY SEEK A COUNTRY; heaven, so called, for the largeness of it; it is a good land, a land of up...
From the profession of these patriarchs, that they were “strangers and pilgrims on the earth,” the apostle makes an _inference_ from what is contained therein, which doth more expressly declare their...
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. Ver. 14. _That they seek a country_] _Fugiendure est ad clarissimam patriam; ibi pater, ibi omnia._ Away, home to our country,...
One of Edwards' most famous and most loved sermons was on Hebrews 11:13-14, "This life ought so to be spent by us to be only a journey toward heaven." THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE, A JOURNEY TOWARDS HEAV...
HEB. 11:14-15. FOR THEY THAT SAY SUCH THINGS DECLARE PLAINLY THAT THEY SEEK A COUNTRY. AND TRULY, IF THEY HAD BEEN MINDFUL OF THAT (COUNTRY) FROM WHENCE THEY CAME OUT, THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITY...
_For they that say such things_ That speak of themselves as strangers and pilgrims; _declare plainly that they seek a country_ Different from that in which they dwell. Or rather, that they seek their...
A COUNTRY; which they had not found and could not find in this world....
An application of the truths here offered:...
FOR THEY THAT SAY SUCH THINGS DECLARE PLAINLY THAT THEY SEEK A COUNTRY....
This chapter in itself forms a complete division of the book of Hebrews. If previously the doctrine has been thoroughly laid down that faith is the principle of all actual relationship with God, now C...
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Hebrews 11:14 For G1063 say G3004 (G5723) things G5108 plainly G1718 (G5719) that G3754 seek G1934 ...
‘For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.' For they who declare such things, that they are ‘strangers' and ‘sojourners' (as those who live in...
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A COUNTRY OF THEIR OWN (πατριδα). Land of the fathers (πατηρ), one's native land (John 4:44). Cf. our patriotic, patriotism....
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2 Corinthians 4:18; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Hebrews 11:16; Hebrews 13:14;...
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They who speak thus show plainly that they seek their own country — That they keep in view, and long for, their native home....
As if the apostle had said, "They that say such things, namely, that they, even in the land of promise, are pilgrims and strangers, do declare plainly that they seek. country where they may rest and d...