1 Peter 1:12; Hebrews 11:13; Hebrews 11:2; Luke 10:23; Luke 10:24
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...
(16) And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received (y) not the promise: (16) An amplification taken from the circumstance of...
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 prai...
received . Same Greek. word as in 19. See Note there.
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 bright...
DISCOURSE: 2333 THE ADVANTAGES ENJOYED UNDER THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 11:39-40 . These all, having obtained a good report through fait...
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Having obtained a good report (having been witnessed to; see H...
And these all, having obtained, &c.— "All these pious heroes, in different ages, were supported under their respective trials, severe and extre...
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Having obtained a good report - `borne witness of.' Tho...
Heroes of Faith The Achievements of Faith, illustrated from the annals of Israel, beginning with the patriarchs and coming down to the martyrs. Th...
A good report ] see on Hebrews 11:2 . 40 . There is here the answer to an implied objection, that the faith of these suffering heroes was all in...
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...
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,...
“The Noble Army of Martyrs” Hebrews 11:32-40 Strong faith is consistent with very different views of religious truth. The conception that Abel,...
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...
(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 these all having obtained a good report through faith ,.... This may either be limited to the sufferers in the preceding verses, who were martyr...
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Ver. 39. Received not the promise ] viz. Of Christ's incarn...
These all, having obtained a good report Μαρτυρηθεντες, being witnessed unto , as persons who did or suffered great things by faith. The expressio...
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. 32 And what sh...
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 wit...
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...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 11:37 . Sawn asunder. —The traditional mode of Isaiah’s death. Tempted. — I.e. severely tested. A conjec...
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 J...
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...
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 11:32 . And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David als...
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...
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 Ch...
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...
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise,
The author's conclusion:
And all these — Though they obtained a good testimony, Hebrews 11:2 , yet did not receive the great promise, the heavenly inheritance.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: