Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

 Further, the Christian has entered into a great inheritance (kleronomia, G2817) . Here is a word with a great history; for it is the word which is regularly used in the Greek Old Testament for the inheritance of Canaan, the Promised Land. Again and again the Old Testament speaks of the land which God had given his people for an inheritance to possess ( Deuteronomy 15:4; Deuteronomy 19:10). To us inheritance tends to mean something which in the future we shall possess; as the Bible uses the word, it rather means a secure possession. To the Jew the great settled possession was the Promised Land. 