for I say to you, that many prophets and kings did wish to see what ye perceive, and did not see, and to hear what ye hear, and did not hear.'
`And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,
And having turned unto the disciples, he said, by themselves, `Happy the eyes that are perceiving what ye perceive;
And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'
Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'
In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,