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Hebrews 11:35
Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;
Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;
Verse 35. _WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD_] As did the widow of _Zarephath_, 1 Kings 17:21, and the _Shunammite_, 2 Kings 4:34. What other cases under all the above heads the apostle might have in view, we...
WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN - As in the case of the woman of Zarephath, whose child was restored to life by Elijah, 1 Kings 17:19; and of the son of the Shunamite woman whose child...
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
The rest of the history would take too long to survey in detail, and the writer contents himself with suggesting it by a few striking allusions. He mentions certain outstanding names, then refers in g...
Women received back their own folk as if they had been raised from the dead. Others were crucified because they refused to accept release, for they were eager to obtain a better resurrection. Others w...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
RAISED, &C. = from (Greek. _ek)_ resurrection (App-178.) OTHERS. Greek. _allos._ App-124. TORTURED. bastinadoed to death Greek. _tumpanizomai._ Only here. DELIVERANCE. Same as "redemption", Hebrews...
_Women received their dead_ The woman of Sarepta (1 Kings 17:22), the Shunamite (2 Kings 4:32-36). _raised to life again_ Lit., "by resurrection." _were tortured_ The word means, technically, "were b...
ΓΥΝΑΙ͂ΚΕΣ. The woman of Sarepta (1 Kings 17:22), the Shunamite (2 Kings 4:32-36). ἘΞ�. Lit., “_by resurrection_.” ἘΤΥΜΠΑΝΊΣΘΗΣΑΝ. Josephus calls the instrument of torture τροχός. The word means techn...
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...
_MANY SUFFERED FOR THE FAITH -- HEBREWS 11:32-38:_ Many names were only mentioned. There was_ _ Gedeon, Barak, Samson, Jephthae, David, Samuel, and the prophet. These are great servants of God "Who th...
ΈΛΑΒΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать, принимать, ΆΝΆΣΤΑΣΙΣ (G386) воскресение, ΈΤΥΜΠΑΝΊΣΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΤΥΜΠΑΝΊΖΩ (G5178) пытать. Это слово обозначает "бить" "ударять" или "из...
DISCOURSE: 2331 POWER OF FAITH 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 also, and Samuel, and of t...
WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN:— _By a resurrection;_ by a restoration to life. What kind of punishment, or rather cruel usage, is alluded to in the next clause, or whether the word be...
C. _Israelitish nation: faith in God's promises of the coming Messiah. Hebrews 11:28-40_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 11:28-40 Hebrews 11:28 By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkl
THE PINNACLE OF FAITH (Hebrews 11:35, Hebrews 11:36) In His lengthy but most blessed description of the Life of Faith the Spirit of God has, in Hebrews 11, passed from one phase of it to another, exh...
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD RAISED - the widow of Za...
17 That all this is in resurrection is further enforced by the offering of Isaac. Abraham had such confidence in God, that he was ready to slay his son, believing that God would rouse him from the dea...
11:35 tortured, (g-11) Perhaps 'beaten [to death].'...
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...
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...
RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN. — Literally, _by a resurrection._ (See 1 Kings 17:22; 2 Kings 4:35.) At this point the character of the record is changed; hitherto we have heard of the victories of faith in act...
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, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, le...
ἔλαβον γυναῖκες.… “Women received their dead by resurrection,” as is narrated of the widow of Sarepta, 1 Kings 17:17-24, and the Shunamite, 2 Kings 4:34. ἄλλοι δὲ ἐτυμπανίσθησαν … “others were beaten...
Summary of the achievements of faith in the times subsequent to Joshua....
“THE NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS” Hebrews 11:32 Strong faith is consistent with very different views of religious truth. The conception that Abel, Enoch or Noah had of so-called Christian truth was very s...
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...
THOSE WHO OVERCAME BY FAITH It is by faith that the walls of Jericho fell (Joshua 6:1-21). Only faith that obedience of Jehovah and his servant would work could have destroyed such a city in such a wa...
(t) Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were (u) tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: (t) He seems to mean the story of that woman...
(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 of the prophets: (33) Who through faith subdu...
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...
35._Women received, etc. _He had already mentioned instances in which God had remunerated the faith of his servants, he now refers to examples of a different kind, — that saints, reduced to extreme mi...
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...
Ver. 35 WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN,.... As the widow of Zarephath, and the Shunammite, 1 Kings 17:22. Their sons were really dead, and they received them alive gain, from the hands...
῎Εσβεσαν δύναμιν πυρὸς, ἔφυγον στόματα μαχαίρας, ἐνεδυναμώθησαν ἀπὸ ἀσθενείας, ἐγενη. θησαν ἰσχυροὶ ἐν πολέμῳ, παρεμβολὰς ἔκλιναν ἀλλοτρίων· ἔλαβον γυναῖκες ἐξ ἀναστάσεως τοὺς νεκροὺς αὐτῶν. Hebrews 1...
He proceeds in the next place unto instances quite of another nature, and which were more immediately suited unto the condition of the Hebrews. For hearing of these great and glorious things, they mig...
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: Ver. 35. _Women received_] As the Sareptan Shunammit...
HEB. 11:33-35. WHO THROUGH FAITH SUBDUED KINGDOMS, WROUGHT RIGHTEOUSNESS, OBTAINED PROMISES, STOPPED THE MOUTHS OF LIONS, QUENCHED THE VIOLENCE OF FIRE, ESCAPED THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, OUT OF WEAKNESS...
_Women_, naturally weak, _received their dead_ children _raised to life again_ Compare 1 Kings 17:22; 2 Kings 4:36; _and others_ Particularly seven children and one pious and holy mother; _were tortur...
No victories ever won compare with those of faith. Its triumphs no earthly tongue can speak or pen describe. They are written in the book of life, and will be told with immortal tongues, by multitudes...
WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD; 1 KINGS 17:17-23; 2 KINGS 4:32-37. OTHERS WERE TORTURED; from this point onward examples are included of those who lived after the record of the Old Testament was closed, so...
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...
32-38 After all our searches into the Scriptures, there is more to be learned from them. We should be pleased to think, how great the number of believers was under the Old Testament, and how strong t...
OLBGrk; WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN: through this Divine faith, both the prophets Elijah and Elisha did raise and restore, the one to the window of Sarepta, 1 KINGS 17:22,23, the ot...
Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus But he, trusting in his martyrdom, and promising to himself from the retribution of God the reward of resurrection, exclaimed and...
Hebrews 11:35 Women G1135 received G2983 (G5627) their G846 dead G3498 life G1537 again G386 And G1161 others...
‘Women received their dead by a resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.' It is noteworthy that he deliberately keeps on i...
Hebrews 11:35-38. What faith has done we have seen; what it helps men to suffer is now told us. WOMEN RECEIVED (back) THEIR DEAD RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN (literally, by a resurrection, which is regarded a...
BY A RESURRECTION (εξ αναστασεως). Cf. 1 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 4:8-37.WERE TORTURED (ετυμπανισθησαν). First aorist passive indicative of τυμπανιζω, late verb from τυμπανον (kettledrum, drumstick),...
Hebrews 11:35 Consider: I. The better resurrection. Think (1) of the place of it. "There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie....
Hebrews 11:30 We may make use of extraordinary examples to encourage our ordinary faith at ordinary times. These models are on a very grand and large scale, and so we can plainly see them. I. Faith w...
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...
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...
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...
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 also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:_ There are some...
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...
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...
WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEAD. 1 Kings 17:17-24; 2 Kings 4:18-37. DIED UNDER TORTURE. This was especially true of the terrible persecutions of the Jews mentioned in the Books of Maccabees (which were part...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:35 WOMEN RECEIVED BACK THEIR DEAD BY RESURRECTION. E.g., Elijah (1 Kings 17:17), and Elisha ...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 11:37. SAWN ASUNDER.—The traditional mode of Isaiah’s death. TEMPTED.—_I.e._ severely tested. A conjecture has been made that the word should be ἐπρήσθησαν, the...
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 Corinthians 15:54; 1 Kings 17:22; 2 Kings 4:27; Acts 22:24;...
Women — Naturally weak. Received their dead — Children. Others were tortured — From those who acted great things the apostle rises higher, to those who showed the power of faith by suffering. Not acce...