Desiring A Better Country

"But now they…" "But now they…" The writer of this epistle is still speaking of those heroes of faith mentioned in the preceding context, particularly Abraham and Sarah, who had demonstrated a faith all the saints of God ought to emulate. And the words "but now" indicate that the words of our text are not in a temporal, but a logical connection with the immediately preceding context. In other words, the writer to the Hebrews is not contrasting what took place in the old dispensation with what...