“All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.”
Hebrews 11:13
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Connection with the death and burial of Sarah
The cave at Machpelah, where Abraham buried Sarah, filled with people who died this way, holding God's promise: Sarah, then Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah, Leah and Jacob. Stephen said God gave Abraham "no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground" (Acts 7:5).
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Peter used the same language for believers: "Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles" (1 Peter 2:11). English spreads this idea across foreigner, stranger and exile in four different books, so a reader can miss the thread that runs from Abraham's family, described here, to the church.
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