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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:15

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Hebrews11:15

15 And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned:

Tho they were Strangers in Canaan, yet they might seek an earthly Country, even Vr of the Chaldees, from whence they came forth, and which was their native Country, and so might be dearer to them than any other; but it was not that, but a better Country they were mindful of, which they viewed by Faith; whereas the other they might have seen with their Eyes; if that had been all they desired, they wanted neither means nor opportunity of returning to it, but they remained fixed in Obedience to the heavenly Call: and when Iacob returned to it for a Wife, yet he left it again when God summoned him, as appears, Gen. ch. 29, and 30, and 31. They did willingly leave it, and kept from it, and never lookt back there, but lookt for a better.

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