Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 29:15

15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers : our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding .

These Words may contain a reason either 1. of the first clause of v. 14. Who am I, &c. i. e. What mean and contemptible Creatures are we, and how unworthy of so high a Favour? For, saith he here, we▪ I and my People, as it is v. 14. are strangers, &c. poor Pilgrims who bring nothing into the World, and pass hastily thorough it, and can carry nothing with us out of it. Or rather 2. of the last clause of that 14t[illegible: 1+ letters]. verse, of thine own, &c. For the Land which we possess is thine, not ours, we are not the Proprietors or perpetual Possessors of it, but onely thy Tenants: and as our Fathers once were meer strangers in it, even with or before men, Psal. 105. 12. so we at this day are no better with or before thee, having no absolute Right and Title in it, but onely to travel through it, and sojourn in it for that short time [illegible: 1 word] we live in the World. And thus the Argument seems to be [illegible: 1 word] from Levit. 25. 23. where this is given as a reason why [illegible: 1 word] Inheritances of the Land of Canaan could not be sold for ever, but onely till the Jubily, for, saith God, the land is mine, as to Dominion and Propriety, for ye were (or, for, or, but you are) onely strangers and sojourners with me.

We onely give to thee what we must shortly leave, and what we cannot keep to our selves: and therefore it is a great Favour that [illegible: 1 word] wilst accept such Offerings; or, and therefore we are not perpetual Possessors of this Land and the Fruits of it, but onely Pilgrims and Passengers thorough it.

Marginal references: Psal. [illegible: 1 word] Heb. 11. [illegible: 1 word] 1 Pe[illegible: 1+ letters]. 2. [illegible: 1 word] ▪; Psal. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] & [illegible: 1 word]; Heb. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word], Lev. 25▪ [illegible: 1 word]