“For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.”
For people who speak this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland (patris) — those who confess themselves strangers necessarily imply they seek another country; the confession contains inherent eschatological aspiration.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 11:14
The first virtue, yea the whole of virtue, is to be a stranger to this world, and a sojourner, and to have nothing in common with things here, but to hang loose from them, as from things strange to us; As those blessed disciples did, of whom he says, “They wandered about in sheepskins, and in goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented: of whom the world was not worthy.” c. xi. 37, 38 They called themselves therefore “strangers”; but Paul said somewhat much beyond…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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