No Continuing City
Hebrews 13:14
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.


In Chili, where the ground is subject to frequent shocks of earthquake, the houses are built of lowly height and of unenduring structure; it is of little use to dig deep foundations, and pile up high walls, when the very earth is unstable; it would be foolish to build as for ages when the whole edifice may be in ruins in a week. Herein we read a lesson as to our worldly schemes and possessions; this poor fleeting world deserves not that we should build our hopes and joys upon it as though they could last us long. We must treat it as a treacherous soil, and build but lightly on it, and we shall be wise.

(C. H. Spurgeon.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

WEB: For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.




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