Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hebrews 11:14

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14. For —proof that "faith" ( Hebrews 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. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-15" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-heb-11-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/heb-11-14

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological