Murdock(i)
13 All these died in faith, and received not their promise; but they saw it afar off, and rejoiced in it; and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 Now they who say thus, show that they seek a city.
15 But if they had been seeking that city from which they came out, they had opportunity to return again and go to it.
16 But now it is manifest that they longed for a better city than that, namely, for that which is in heaven. Therefore God did not refuse to be called their God; for he prepared for them the city.
17 By faith Abraham, in his trial, offered up Isaac; and he laid on the altar his only son, whom he had received by promise.
18 For it had been said to him, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
19 And he reasoned with himself, that God was able even to raise him from the dead: and therefore, in the similitude of a resurrection, he was restored to him.
20 By faith in what was to be, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.
21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and bowed himself on the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when dying, was mindful of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave direction concerning his bones.
23 By faith the parents of Moses, after he was born, hid him three months; because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not deterred by the command of the king.
24 By faith Moses, when be became a man, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
25 And he chose to be in affliction with the people of God, and not to live luxuriously in sin for a short season:
26 and he esteemed the reproach of the Messiah a greater treasure than the hoarded riches of Egypt; for he looked upon the recompense of reward.
27 By faith, he left Egypt, and was not terrified by the wrath of the king; and he continued to hope, just as if he saw the invisible God.