Hebrews 11:14 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 11:14

Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

BSB

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ASV

For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.

KJV

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

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Commentary

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Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Hebrews (1274)

597. – Then (v. 14) he shows that this confession pertains to hope. For one is a guest and a stranger, unless he is outside his country and going to it. Therefore, since they confess themselves guests and strangers, they signify that they are heading …

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1825: “An Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Saints” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1885)

Believers are a class by themselves, even when they die. It is idle to think that we can mark out a spot in the cemetery where none but saints shall sleep, but yet there is a truth at the bottom of that folly. There is a separation even in death between the righteous and the wicked. The Lord seems to erect a mausoleum in which lie asleep the bodies of His people and He writes this epitaph across the front, "THESE ALL DIED IN FAITH." As for those who died without faith, they indeed, died.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἱ	hoi	Those	G3588 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
τοιαῦτα	toiauta	such things	G5108 →
λέγοντες	legontes	saying	G3004 →
ἐμφανίζουσιν	emphanizousin	make manifest	G1718 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
πατρίδα	patrida	their country	G3968 →
ἐπιζητοῦσιν.	epizētousin	they are seeking.	G1934 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:7
  For we walk by faith, not by sight.
- Romans 8:24–25
  For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
- Hebrews 11:1
  Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
- 1 John 2:16–17
  For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
- 1 John 2:25
  And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
Through
Hebrews 13:14
For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
leads to
- Philippians 3:20
  But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Philippians 1:23
I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:8
  We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Through
Hebrews 11:16
Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:14
  For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.