Hebrews 11:15

But if they had been seeking that city from which they came out, they had opportunity to return again and go to it.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Now they who say thus, show that they seek a city.

16But now it is manifest that they longed for a better city than that, namely, for that which is in heaven. Therefore God did not refuse to be called their God; for he prepared for them the city.

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Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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