“And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.”
If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return — the logic unfolds: had Abraham and the patriarchs been content with Mesopotamia or Egypt, they could have returned. They did not, proving their loyalty was to an unseen promise.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 11:15
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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