 This is a comparison, comments St. John Chrysostom, taken from Navigators at Sea. When they see afar off the city they are making for, although they have not yet entered its harbor, they burst into excited cheers. Although in this life the patriarchs and the just of old times did not come to possess the redemption that had been promised, or to share in the union that we can now enjoy with the only begotten Son of God,