“Scripture, with the desire to describe to us the perfect man, the man who is ordained to be the recipient of blessings, observes a certain order and method in the treatment of points in him which we may contemplate, and begins from the simplest and most obvious, ‘Lord, who shall sojourn A.V. marg. and R.V.  The LXX. is παροικήσει. in thy tabernacle?’  A sojourning is a transitory dwelling.  It indicates a life not settled, but passing, in hope of our removal to the better things.  It is the part of a saint to pass through this world, and to hasten to another life.  In this sense David says of himself, ‘I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.’ Ps. xxxix. 12.  Abraham was a sojourner, who did not possess even so much land as to set his foot on, and when he needed a tomb, bought one for money. cf. Gen. xxiii. 16, and Acts vii. 16.  The word teaches us that so long as he lives in the flesh he is a sojourner, and, when he removes from this life, rests in his own home.  In this life he sojourns with strangers, but the land which he bought in the tomb to receive his body is his own.  And truly blessed is it, not to rot with things of earth as though they were one’s own, nor cling to all that is about us here as through here were our natural fatherland, but to be conscious of the fall from nobler things, and of our passing our time in heaviness because of the punishment that is laid upon us, just like exiles who for some crimes’ sake have been banished by the magistrates into regions far from the land that gave them birth.  Hard it is to find a man who will not heed present things as though they were his own; who knows that he has the use of wealth but for a season; who reckons on the brief duration of his health; who remembers that the bloom of human glory fades away.