The promises; the things which God had promised.

Embraced them; looked forward to the fulfilment of the promises with earnest desire and confident expectation.

Confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims; see Genesis 23:4, where the literal pilgrimage of Abraham shadows forth this life as a pilgrimage; and so it is spoken of by Jacob, Genesis 47:9, and still more fully afterwards by David, 1 Chronicles 29:15.

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Old Testament