Hebrews 11:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

looked. Greek. ekdechomai. See Hebrews 10:13.

a. the.

foundations. the foundations. Greek. themelios. Revelation 21:14-20. See App-146.

builder. Greek. technites. Architect or Designer. See Acts 19:24. From the same root we have tekton, rendered "carpenter", Matthew 13:55.Mark 6:3, meaning builder or constructor. The word used in contempt of our Lord's earthly occupation (as being apart from Rabbinical connexion and teaching) is profoundly significant. Does it not suggest the reason why He elected for the period of His Incarnation to become. carpenter, rather than, e.g.,. shepherd, as the Antitype of David? He, the great Architect, Designer, and Fabricator of "all things visible", including "the city which hath the foundations"! He, the Preparer, Arranger, and Constitutor of the ages or dispensations (aions, Hebrews 11:3 and Hebrews 1:2), condescended to follow during "the days of His flesh"a trade involving the planning, calculation, and manual skill of. craftsman!

maker. Greek. demiourgos. Only here.. word used by the Gnostics; and by Plato and Xenophon for the Creator of the world.

Hebrews 11:10

10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.