I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.
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TSK · Hebrews 11:13
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And he sayde: Beholde, I am nowe olde, and knowe not the daye of my death.
And Israel said vnto Ioseph: behold I dye, & God shalbe with you, & bryng you againe vnto ye land of your fathers.
I haue wayted for thy saluation O Lorde.
And when Iacob had made an ende of commaundyng all that he would vnto his sonnes, he plucked vp his feete vnto the bedde, and dyed: and was put vnto his people.
And he aunswered hym: I wyll not go, but wyl depart to mine owne lande, and to my kinred.
But who am I? and what is my people? that we should enforce our selues to geue these thinges so willingly? But all thinges come of thee, & of that which we receaued at thyne hand, we haue geuen thee.
Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.
Ueryly I say vnto you, that many prophetes and ryghteous men haue desired to see those thynges which ye see, and haue not seene: and to heare those thynges which ye heare, and haue not hearde.
Such thynges sayde Esaias, when he sawe his glory, and spake of hym.
For we are saued by hope: But hope that is seene, is no hope. For howe can a man hope for that which he seeth?
By fayth he forsoke Egypt, fearyng not the wrath of the kyng: For he endured, euen as though he had seene him which is inuisible.
Of which saluation haue ye prophetes enquired & searched, which prophesied of the grace that should come vnto you:
Dearely beloued, I beseche you as straugers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lustes, whiche fight agaynst the soule: