9. sojourned--as a "stranger and pilgrim."
in--Greek, "into," that is, he went into it and
sojourned there.
as in a strange country--a country not belonging to him,
but to others (so the Greek),
Ac 7:5, 6.
dwelling in tabernacles--tents: as strangers and
sojourners do: moving from place to place, as having no fixed
possession of their own. In contrast to the abiding "city"
(Heb 11:10).
with--Their kind of dwelling being the same is a proof that
their faith was the same. They all alike were content to wait for their
good things hereafter
(Lu 16:25).
Jacob was fifteen years old at the death of Abraham.
heirs with him of the same promise--Isaac did not inherit it
from Abraham, nor Jacob from Isaac, but they all inherited it from God
directly as "fellow heirs." In
Heb 6:12, 15, 17,
"the promise" means the thing promised as a thing in part
already attained; but in this chapter "the promise" is of
something still future. However, see on
Heb 6:12.
JFB.
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