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Hebrews 11:11
Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
HEBREWS 11:11 pi,stei kai. auvth. Sa,rra stei/ra du,namin {C} The difficulties of this verse are well known (for example, in Greek the expression du,namin eivj katabolh.n spe,rmatoj e;laben is regula...
Verse Hebrews 11:11. _THROUGH FAITH ALSO SARA_] Her history, as far as the event here is concerned, may be seen Genesis 17:19, and Genesis 21:2. Sarah at first treated the Divine message with ridicul...
THROUGH FAITH ALSO SARAH HERSELF RECEIVED STRENGTH TO CONCEIVE SEED - The word “herself” here - αὐτὴ autē - implies that there was something remarkable in the fact that “she” should manifest this f...
IV. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Faith in regard to creation and salvation (Hebrews 11:1)_ 2. The patience of faith (Hebrews 11:8) 3. The energy of faith (Hebrews 11:23
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 example of faith. Abraham showed his faith by his o...
It was by faith that Sarah, too, received power to conceive and to bear a son, although she was beyond the age for it, for she believed that he who gave the promise could be absolutely relied upon. So...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
ALSO. even. RECEIVED. It was given from above. STRENGTH. Greek. _dunamis._ App-172. TO CONCEIVE. Literally for (Greek. _eis)_ casting down (Greek. _kataboe._ See App-146). Compare 2 Kings 19:3. The...
_also Sara herself_ Rather "even." Perhaps the "even" refers to her original weakness of faith when she laughed (Genesis 18:12; Genesis 21:2; comp. Romans 4:19). Dr Field thinks that these words may b...
ΚΑῚ ΑΥ̓ΤῊ ΣΆΡΡΑ. “_Even Sarah herself_.” Perhaps the “even” refers to her original weakness of faith when she laughed (Genesis 18:12; Genesis 21:2; comp. Romans 4:19). Dr Field thinks that these words...
CH. 11. THE HEROES OF FAITH The main task of the writer has now been performed, but the remainder of the Epistle had also a very important purpose. It would have been fatal to the peace of mind of a J...
_SOME WHO LIVED BY FAITH -- HEBREWS 11:4-31:_ The writer of Hebrews has now set forth what faith is and how faith works. He proceeds to list a "Hall of fame" of Old Testament characters who lived 'by...
ΑΎΤΗ (G846) сама, ΚΑΤΑΒΟΛΉ (G2602) бросание. Используется как термин, обозначающий посев. Здесь это идиома: "принять в себя семя" в значении "забеременеть". ΣΤΕΊΡΑ (G4723) бесплодный, неспособный им...
BECAUSE SHE JUDGED HIM FAITHFUL WHO HAD PROMISED.— It may seem a difficulty, that the apostle should here tell us that Sarah _judged him faithful who had promised,_ whereas in the history she seems no...
B. _The patriarchal: faith in God plus faith in His promises. Hebrews 11:8-27_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 11:8-27 Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place
THE FAITH OF SARAH (Hebrews 11:11, Hebrews 11:12) In the verses which are now to be before us the apostle calls attention to the marvelous power of a God-given faith to exercise itself in the presenc...
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. ALSO SARA HERSELF - though...
1 Faith is neither "substance" nor "evidence", as is the usual rendering of this passage. The word "substance" is changed to "confidence" in most later translations, as this word seems to agree with i...
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 necessary co...
SARA] RV 'Even Sarah herself,' i.e. in spite of her earlier and natural incredulity: see Genesis 18:10....
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 11 5 THE BETTER WAY 11:1-13:25 THE WAY OF TRUST AND HOPE 11:1-40 THE MEANING OF *FAITH (TRUST IN GOD) 11:1-3 V1 *Faith, that is, trust...
THROUGH FAITH ALSO SARA HERSELF. — Rather, _By faith Sarah herself also,_ or, _even Sarah herself._ This emphatic introduction of the name of Sarah may point to the unbelief which for a brief while sh...
CHAPTER XI. THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM. "By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By fai...
Πίστει καὶ αὐτὴ Σάρρα.… “By faith Sarah herself also received power to become a mother even when past the age, since she counted Him faithful who had promised.” καὶ αὐτὴ Σάρρα is rendered by Vaughan,...
SEEKING THE BETTER COUNTRY Hebrews 11:11 Faith has the twofold power, first, of making the unseen real; and second, of receiving the grace and strength of God into the heart. Sarah, through faith, r...
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. Afte...
THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM Like Noah, Abraham displayed actions of faith when he received the call from God (Genesis 12:1-3), even though he was to leave the safety of his homeland and go to a place unknown...
_By faith also Sara, &c. Though Sara [Sarah] seemed at first incredulous, yet she presently believed, and conceived Isaac when she was past the age of having children. (Witham)_...
(8) By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. (9) By faith he sojourned in the...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
11._Through faith also, Sarah herself, etc. _That women may know that this truth belongs to them as well as to men, he adduces the example of Sarah; which he mentions in preference to that of others,...
It is not a definition of this principle, that the epistle gives us at the commencement of Chapter 11, but a declaration of its powers and action. Faith realises (gives substance to) that which we hop...
THROUGH FAITH ALSO SARAH HERSELF,.... Some copies add "being barren"; and so read the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; which is a circumstance which makes her faith appear the greater: bu...
The instances of the faith of Abraham insisted on by the apostle in this discourse may be referred unto two heads: first, Such as respect his call; secondly, Such as respect the promise made unto him....
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Ver. 11. _Because she judged...
HEB. 11:11. THROUGH FAITH ALSO SARAH HERSELF RECEIVED STRENGTH TO CONCEIVE SEED, AND WAS DELIVERED OF A CHILD WHEN SHE WAS PAST AGE, BECAUSE SHE JUDGED HIM FAITHFUL WHO HAD PROMISED. This text is se...
_Through faith also Sara_ Though at first she laughed at the promise through unbelief; _received strength_ Εις καταβολην σπερματος, _for the conception of seed; and was delivered of a child when she w...
SARAH; GENESIS 21:1-2; Genesis 22:17....
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 C...
8-19 We are often called to leave worldly connexions, interests, and comforts. If heirs of Abraham's faith, we shall obey and go forth, though not knowing what may befall us; and we shall be found in...
THROUGH FAITH ALSO SARA HERSELF RECEIVED STRENGTH TO CONCEIVE SEED; by the same Divine faith in Abraham and Sarah was brought forth the child of promise. For though the instance be expressly in Sarah,...
Five Books in Reply to Marcion By the arrival of the "perfect things."[260]...
Hebrews 11:11 faith G4102 Sarah G4564 herself G846 also G2532 received G2983 (G5627) strength G1411 to G1519 conce
FAITH REVEALED IN POSITIVE PRESENT ACTION BY THOSE WHO BELIEVED THE PROMISES OF GOD'S FUTURE REWARD FOR HIS OWN IN THE LIGHT OF THE FUTURE HOPE (HEBREWS 11:7). The essential of this next section is th...
‘By faith even Sarah herself received power for the laying down of seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised, for which reason also there sprang of one, and him as go...
Hebrews 11:8-22. From the elders of the antediluvian world the writer now appeals to the elders of Israel, the great men who, under God, founded the Jewish state. Theirs also was a condition of patien...
Hebrews 11:11. And what is true of Abraham, the father of the faithful, is true also of Sarah, who was equally the ancestor of the chosen race. SARAH HERSELF, not ‘who had so long doubted' (Bleek, etc...
TO CONCEIVE SEED (εις καταβολην σπερματος). For deposit of seed. See Hebrews 4:3 for καταβολη.PAST AGE (παρα καιρον ηλικιας). Beyond (παρα with the accusative) the season of age.SINCE SHE COUNTED...
Hebrews 11:8 The Patriarchs. I. The period of the patriarchs has a very peaceful and lovely character. God appeared and spoke to them. There was as yet no law. What is the real peculiarity of the pat...
Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elder obtained a good report._ So it was written, in the olden time, that believers «obta...
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 mention of some of their most memorable actions. If...
First, a definition of faith. Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand...
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 fai...
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 witnesses,» who, from their lofty seats above, are watchin...
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 believed in God, and who therefore did great things. Hebr...
Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report._ The names of those who lived in old time are handed down...
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 fought and conquered. May you and I possess «like pr...
CONTENTS: Superiority of the way of faith. Instances of faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Abel, Cain, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sara, Joseph, Moses, Pharaoh's daughter, Rahab, Gideon, Barak,...
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. Then fa...
ABLE TO BECOME A FATHER. Abraham was one hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety. Sarah laughed when she heard the promise [Isaac means laughter]. But both Abraham and Sarah believed God could do what...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:11 SARAH. See Genesis 21:1. Sarah first laughed, apparently in unbelief ...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 11:7. RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS BY FAITH.—Which is according to faith. “Faith in this writer never becomes the same as mystic oneness with Christ, but means genera...
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 used, see unde...
Hebrews, chapter 11: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith d...
1 Peter 3:5; 1 Peter 3:6; Genesis 17:17; Genesis 18:11; Genesis 21:1;
Sarah. Faith prevailing against natural impossibilities. See Romans 4:19-22. Both Abraham and Sarah doubted at first (Genesis 17:17; Genesis 18:12); but both became persuaded of the truthfulness of th...
FAR-FLUNG VISIONS A New Year's Study Hebrews 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Another New Year has come to us freighted with every possibility of life and service. At such a time as this it is natural for u...
THE PLACE OF FAITH Hebrews 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Unbelief is black with the frown of God; faith is regnant with the smile of God. Unbelief closes every channel of blessing; faith opens up the cha...
THE LIFE OF FAITH Hebrews 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Faith defined. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews opens with something that is very definite it is a definition of faith. "Now faith is the substan...
ABRAHAM THE FRIEND OF GOD Hebrews 11:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Early beginnings. Perhaps, in all history there is none who has ever attained unto the honor and fame of Abraham. Abraham lived half way...
Sarah also herself — Though at first she laughed at the promise, Genesis 18:12. Genesis 21:2....
Our apostle having spoken of Abraham's faith before, makes an honourable mention of his wife Sarah's faith here. It is. blessed thing when husband and wife are one in the faith, as well as one flesh;...