Now people who speak in this way plainly show they are in search of a fatherland.
for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.
(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).
but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.)
I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.
(These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.'
If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back,