Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:14

14 For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country.

The Reason of Faiths Effect in their dying, is the bringing in view a better Life, State, and Place than any earthly one. For these Believers by Word and Life professing themselves to be Strangers and Pilgrims on this Earth, and seeing God's Promises, and imbracing them, declare and shew plainly to all who see them, or converse with them, that they sought a Country, and a place of Rest, which they were not possest of. For no Person is a Stranger or Pilgrim in his own Country; but these inquired the way and walked in it, which led them to a better than any this Earth afforded them; and so the Apostle brings us back to that which he had declared before, v. 10. and immediately prevents the suggestion, that this Country should be their former Country, and clears it to be a better.