If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
Verse 15. And truly if they had been mindful of that country, etc, If they had remembered it with sufficient interest and affection to have made them desirous to return. They might have had opportunity to have returned. The journey was not so long or perilous that they could not have retraced their steps, it would have been no more difficult or dangerous for them...
Abel is our first pattern of faith at work: he offered a sacrifice acceptable to God while his brother's was rejected. By faith he was commended as righteous, and though he died long ago, his faith still speaks.
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Commenting on Hebrews 11:4-31
But now they desire a better country,.... Which is not to be understood of the then present time, in which the apostle wrote; for the patriarchs, of whom he speaks, were not then on earth, nor in any third place between heaven and earth; they were then in heaven; and though there are indeed in heaven desires after perfect happiness, in soul and body; yet...