Genesis 27:27-40; Genesis 28:2; Genesis 28:3
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come - see Genesis 27:26-40 . The meaning is, that he pronounced a blessing on them i...
(8) By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. (8) Isaac.
Passing now from the men of the primeval world, the writer comes to the patriarchs, and especially to Abraham, who stands out in the OT as the chief...
Isaac . Isaac shows us faith overcoming the will of the flesh, in that he blessed Jacob instead of Esau. concerning . Greek. peri . App-104.
20. By faith Isaac, etc. It was also the work of faith to bless as to future things; for when the thing itself does not exist and the wor...
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau - He believed that God would fulfill his promi...
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau— He was persuaded that God would one way or other make good his promises to them, though he could not certain...
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. Jacob is put before Esau, as heir of the chief, namely, the spiritual, blessi...
Heroes of Faith The Achievements of Faith, illustrated from the annals of Israel, beginning with the patriarchs and coming down to the martyrs. Th...
Concerning things to come. — It is probable, though not certain, that the word “even” should be inserted before “concerning”; on these words, then,...
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,...
Seeking the Better Country Hebrews 11:11-22 Faith has the twofold power, first, of making the unseen real; and second, of receiving the grace a...
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 th...
(20) By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. (21) By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and...
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau ,.... The history of this is in Genesis 27:33 . The former of these was a good man, and, though the youngest...
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. Ver. 20. By faith Isaac blessed ] Patriarchal benedictions were prophetical; the...
By faith By firmly believing what God had revealed unto him concerning the future state of his children; Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau Prophetical...
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 p...
Exemplars of Faith. A. D. 62. 4 By faith Abel of...
Isaac is the next example instanced in of the same Divine faith, described, Hebrews 11:1 ; only here exercised on the special revelation of God to...
Faith Revealed By Those Whose Eyes Were On the Certainty of the Future Fulfilment of the Promises of God With Their Eyes On Things To Come ( Hebrews...
‘By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.' Similarly by faith Isaac proclaimed the future hopes of his sons in his ble...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 11:19 . Received him in a figure. —Lit. “in a parable.” Stuart thinks the reference is to Abraham’s havi...
Hebrews 11:8-22 The Patriarchs. I. The period of the patriarchs has a very peaceful and lovely character. God appeared and spoke to them. There w...
This is the Arc de Triomphe erected to the memory of the heroes of faith, whose names are here recorded by the apostle's inspired pen, with a brief m...
This is the triumphal arch of faith. Here we find the names of many of the heroes of faith, and a brief record of some of the battles in which they f...
Hebrews 11:1-2 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Th...
This is a very familiar chapter, but it is none the less precious. It is the roll of the heroes of faith. Here you have a list of the men who believe...
These men, of whom we are now briefly to read, are a company of God's witnesses; and the apostle calls them, in the next chapter, «a cloud of witness...
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,...
First, a definition of faith. Hebrews 11:1-3 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elde...
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...
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...
The example of the patriarchs:
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
The Place of Faith Hebrews 11:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Unbelief is black with the frown of God; faith is regnant with the smile of God. Unbelie...
The Life of Faith Hebrews 11:1-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Faith defined. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews opens with something that is very defin...
Blessed — Genesis 27:27 , Genesis 27:39 ; prophetically foretold the particular blessings they should partake of. Jacob and Esau — Preferring the...
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.