Verse 10
10. For Reason for his adventurous movement; he had a higher land in view, which regulated his course in this earthly land.
A city Unlike this rural earthly land.
Foundations Unlike these tents, so soon to be taken up, and so easily blown away. The city was not, as Grotius understood, the future earthly Jerusalem; but that higher and heavenly Jerusalem, the antitype of the lower. See note on Galatians 4:22; Galatians 4:26.
Builder Τεχνιτης , artist, or architect. Herbert Spencer ridicules feebly the doctrine of creation by divine mind and power; styling it, wittily, as he seems to think, “the carpenter theory of creation,” as if a carpenter were a very low thing. Yet poetry, oratory, and the Bible, delight to style God the architect, builder, and maker, of the worlds.
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