¹⁵ If they had had mind of that [And forsooth if they had mind of that], of which they went out, [soothly] they had time of turning again;

¹⁶ but now they desire a better, that is to say, heavenly. Therefore God is not confounded to be called the God of them [Therefore God is not confounded, or shamed, to be called the God of them]; for he made ready to them a city.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham offered Isaac, when he was tempted; and he offered the one begotten [son], which had taken the promises [which had taken repromissions];