Hebrews 11:40

Hebrews 10:11-14; Hebrews 12:23; Hebrews 12:24; Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 7:19; Hebrews 7:22; Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 9:23; Hebrews 9:8-15; Revelation 6:11; Romans 3:25; Romans 3:26

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God having provided some better thing for us - Margin, “foreseen.” That is, “God having provided, or determined on giving some better thing than...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

God having provided some better thing for us, that they (z) without us should not be made perfect. (z) For their salvation depended on Christ, who w...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

provided . Greek. problepo. Only here. for . concerning. Greek. peri . App-104. made perfect . perfected. Greek. teleioo. App-125. Compare...
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 fait...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. God having provided some better thing for us - This is...
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 extre...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Provided - with divine forethought from eterni...
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. Th...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For us. — Rather, concerning us, that without (or, apart from ) us they should not be made perfect. “ Some better thing” — better than they had...
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,...
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,...
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 th...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS BLESSED be God the Holy Ghost, the Almighty Author of his sacred Word, for this precious Chapter, which he hath so graciously given to t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

God having provided some better thing for us ,.... Not a better state of the church, in such respect, as to be free from suffering reproach and pers...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Ver. 40. Some better thing ] i. e. Christ, that gr...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

God having provided some better thing for us Believers under the gospel, than any bestowed upon them, which better thing is Christ himself manife...
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 p...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exemplars of Faith. A. D. 62. 32 And what sh...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

God having provided some better thing for us: the causes of their not receiving the promise, are summed up in this verse; the efficient of it is Go...
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...
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 conjec...
Scofield Reference Notes

perfect ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 5:48 ).
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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
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...
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 Ch...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The author's conclusion:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. In this respect the believers of old serve as excel...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

God having provided some better thing for us — Namely, everlasting glory. That they might not be perfected without us — That is, that we might all...

⁴⁰ God having providede some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Related Commentaries of Hebrews 11:40

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hebrews 11:40