Hebrews 11:15 (WEB)
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
Fathers and councils · 3
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.
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John Chrysostom
“Hebrews xi. 13–16” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For when he is speaking of those noble and great men, hear how he saith, “They that say these things, show plainly that they seek a country; and truly if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned: but now they desire another, a better country.”” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 14, 15.
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