Hebrews 11:13 (WEB)
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Fathers and councils · 10
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again He says, “Arise, and go through the length and breadth of the land, since I will give it unto thee;” and [yet] he did not receive an inheritance in it, not even a footstep, but was always a stranger and a pilgrim therein.” — editor's note: Acts vii. 5; Heb. xi. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…and another in another; according to which Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and David, and all those commended by the mouth of God were righteous, but were judged unrighteous by foolish men, judging out of man’s judgment, and gauging by the petty standard of their own manners the manners of the whole…” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 8–40.
Read the whole comment““That I may ascend,” he says, “among the people of my pilgrimage,” departing quite from the wicked people of his carnal kinship, who are not pilgrims in this earth, and do not seek the country above.” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 13, 16.
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John Chrysostom
“And yet at the end of the Epistle he says, that “all these, having seen the promises afar off, and having embraced them, received them not, that they without us should not be made perfect.” ( c. xi. 13.)” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“And again, “These all died in faith, not having obtained the promises, but having seen them afar off, and embraced them.”” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 13. [R.V., more correctly: “having seen them and greeted them from afar.”—R.]
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Basil the Great
“…to waste attention on it; always, as though living in a flesh that was not theirs, they shewed in very deed what it is to sojourn for a while in this life, and what to have one’s citizenship and home in heaven.” — editor's note: cf. Heb. xi. 13.
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Tertullian
“Are not we, too, travellers in this world?” — editor's note: Or “age”—sæculo. Comp. Ps. xxxix. 12 (in LXX. xxxviii. 13, as in Vulg.) and Heb. xi. 13.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.23On the Making of Man
“If they, then, bear the delay who by faith only and by hope saw the good things “afar off” and “embraced them,” as the apostle bears witness, placing their certainty of the enjoyment of the things for which they hoped in the fact that they “judged Him faithful Who has…” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 13.
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Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
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Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
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Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.