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I am a stranger on the earth. Don`t hide your commandments from me.
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You Are a Sojourner
Commentators universally agree that this verse expresses a core Christian identity: we are "sojourners" on earth. Our true citizenship and permanent home are in heaven. This perspective, as scholars note, helps us hold worldly things loosely and see our life as a temporary journey toward our eternal destination.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I am a stranger in the earth - A wayfaring man; a pilgrim; a sojourner; a man whose permanent home is not in this world. The word i…
19th Century
Anglican
I am a stranger. —A comparison of Psalm 119:54 with Genesis 47:9 () shows that the general transitory condition of life, …
Baptist
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
I am a stranger in the earth. I do not belong to it now: …
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16th Century
Protestant
I am a stranger on the earth. It is proper to inquire into the reason for his calling himself a sojourner and stranger in the world. The g…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I [am] a stranger in the earth As all his fathers were, and all the saints are; not to divine and spiritual things; …
If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We should spend our lives in His service; we will find true life in keeping His word. Those …
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