Stranger and sojourner imagery uses foreignness, alien status, pilgrimage, or hospitality to picture vulnerability, covenant inclusion, earthly transience, exile, or new belonging.
Stranger and sojourner imagery uses foreignness, alien status, pilgrimage, or hospitality to picture vulnerability, covenant inclusion, earthly transience, exile, or new belonging.
A social-location motif in which stranger, sojourner, foreigner, alien, pilgrim, exile, or host-welcome language signifies literal resident alien status, vulnerability, hospitality, covenant boundary, spiritual pilgrimage, or reconciliation into Gods household.
These examples show how Stranger, Sojourner, Foreigner, and Pilgrim Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you
Abraham describes his resident-alien status in the land of promise.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger
Israels memory of Egypt grounds protection for the stranger.
the stranger... shall be unto you as one born among you
Resident aliens are to receive neighbor-love.
Love ye therefore the stranger
Israel is commanded to love the stranger because of its own sojourner past.
I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner
Life before God is expressed through transient sojourner language.
I am a stranger in the earth
The psalmist uses stranger language to confess dependence on Gods commandments.
I was a stranger, and ye took me in
Hospitality to the stranger becomes evidence of mercy toward Christ.
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel
Gentile separation is described as alienation from covenant privileges.
no more strangers and foreigners
Union with Christ transforms outsiders into household members.
strangers and pilgrims on the earth
The faithful confess earthly pilgrimage while seeking the promised city.
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