Hebrews 11:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: ”

• Hebrews 11:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And these all, having obtained a good report through faith - They were all commended and approved on account of their confidence in God; see the notes on Hebrews 11:2 . Received not the promi...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (16) And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received (y) not the promise: (16) An amplification taken from the circumstance of the time: their faith is so much the more to be ma...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Hebrews 11:39 f. In two closing verses the lesson of all this heroic past is summarised. By their faith the great men of Israel had received praise from God in His holy word; yet they did not obt...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  received . Same Greek. word as in 19. See Note there.

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  39. And these all, etc. This is an argument from the less to the greater; for if they on whom the light of grace had not as yet so brightly shone displayed so great a constancy in endurin...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2333 THE ADVANTAGES ENJOYED UNDER THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 11:39-40 . These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided s...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Having obtained a good report (having been witnessed to; see Hebrews 11:2 ) through faith - It was faith in God...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And these all, having obtained, &c.— "All these pious heroes, in different ages, were supported under their respective trials, severe and extreme as they were, by the exercise of a firm and liv...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Having obtained a good report - `borne witness of.' Though they were so, yet they "received not the promi...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Heroes of Faith The Achievements of Faith, illustrated from the annals of Israel, beginning with the patriarchs and coming down to the martyrs. The writer has already mentioned faith as a necessar...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Having obtained a good report. — Now that the history is concluded the word of Hebrews 11:2 is resumed. That in such a faith as was described in Hebrews 11:1 “the elders” received their witness...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XIII. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES. "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a-dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Noble Army of Martyrs” Hebrews 11:32-40 Strong faith is consistent with very different views of religious truth. The conception that Abel, Enoch or Noah had of so-called Christian truth wa...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Then follows a series of illustrations of the power of faith taken from the history of the Hebrew people. The first is that by faith men know that the ages have been fashioned by the Word of God. Af...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (32) And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: (33) Who through faith subd...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And these all having obtained a good report through faith ,.... This may either be limited to the sufferers in the preceding verses, who were martyred, or suffered martyrdom for the faith, as the wo...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Ver. 39. Received not the promise ] viz. Of Christ's incarnation.

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  These all, having obtained a good report Μαρτυρηθεντες, being witnessed unto , as persons who did or suffered great things by faith. The expression does not imply that all the Israelitish judges,...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  This chapter in itself forms a complete division of the book of Hebrews. If previously the doctrine has been thoroughly laid down that faith is the principle of all actual relationship with God, now...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exemplars of Faith. A. D.  62.       32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBGrk; The apostle returns in this verse to the proposition laid down in the second verse, which he had been proving by all these examples, and with it shuts up the history of them. And these all;...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Conclusion ( Hebrews 11:39-40 ). ‘And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided (literally ‘foreseen') some better thing...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 11:37 . Sawn asunder. —The traditional mode of Isaiah’s death. Tempted. — I.e. severely tested. A conjecture has been made that the word should be ἐπρήσθη...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Scofield Reference Notes

  faith The essence of faith consists in receiving what God has revealed, and may be defined as that trust in the God of the Scriptures and in Jesus Christ whom He hath sent, which receives Him...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 11:30-40 We may make use of extraordinary examples to encourage our ordinary faith at ordinary times. These models are on a very grand and large scale, and so we can plainly see them. I....

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  In this chapter we read of the wonders of faith; but I have never read a chapter setting forth the wonders of unbelief. Unbelief is barren impotent, a mere negation, a dead and accursed thing; but fa...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 11:1 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Paul uses here the same Greek word as in Hebrews 1:3 , that the Son is the express image of the Father's hypostasis, or person. Th...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - The Biblical Illustrator

  These all … received not the promise What of the saintly dead prior to the coming of Christ? It is altogether probable that among the Jewish Christians there would be great anxiety to know what...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. On the senses in which the word ὑπόστασις (translated "substance") may be...

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• Hebrews 11:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise,

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:12 ; Hebrews 11:13 ; Hebrews 11:2 ; Luke 10:23 ; Luke 10:24

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• Hebrews 11:39 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And all these — Though they obtained a good testimony, Hebrews 11:2 , yet did not receive the great promise, the heavenly inheritance.

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