Verse 16
16. Now In accepting the inheritance of Canaan, they read a title clear to a better… a heavenly country. And outside of the fleshly Israel there have been faithful souls belonging to the true Israel. Anaxagoras, the Athenian philosopher, (as Laertius tells us,) being asked, “Care you not for your country?” replied, “Speak gently, for I care ardently for my country,” pointing towards heaven. And Plato said, “Man is a heavenly plant, not an earthly.”
God is not ashamed The God of the universe condescends to be God to these immigrant pilgrims. All the stars of limitless astronomy, lifeless things as they are, are not as dear to God as one faithful human soul.
Their God His title of honour is not merely that he was, but that he ever is, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
For In proof that he is specially their God.
Prepared… a city The heavenly counterpart of which, the earthly is type and earnest.
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