…people died still believing what God had promised them.
they did not receive what was promised,
but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it.
They agreed that they were
foreigners and nomads here on earth.
Obviously people who say such things are looking forward
to a country they can call their own.
If they had longed for the country they came from,
they could have gone back.
But they were looking for a better place,
a heavenly homeland…
