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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the Land of Promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;
By faith he sojourned in the Land of Promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;
Verse Hebrews 11:9. _BY FAITH HE SOJOURNED IN THE LAND OF PROMISE_] It is remarkable that Abraham did not acquire any right in Canaan, except that of a _burying place_; nor did he build any house in...
BY FAITH HE SOJOURNED IN THE LAND OF PROMISE, AS IN A STRANGE COUNTRY - The land of Canaan that had been promised to him and his posterity. He resided there as if he were a stranger and sojourner. He...
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 Abraham, when he was caned, showed his obedience by going out to a place which he was going to receive as an inheritance, and he went out not knowing where he was to go. It was by...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
SOJOURNED. Greek. _paroikeo._ Only here and Luke 24:18. IN. Greek. _eis._ App-104. LAND. Greek. _ge_. App-129. STRANGE. Greek. _allotrios._ App-124. TABERNACLES. tents. HEIRS WITH HIM. Greek. _su...
_as in a strange country_ "I am a stranger and a sojourner with you" (Genesis 23:3). The patriarchs are constantly called _paroikoi_, "dwellers beside," "sojourners" (Genesis 17:8; Genesis 20:1, &c)....
ὩΣ�. “_I am a stranger and a sojourner with you_” (Genesis 23:4). The patriarchs are constantly called πάροικοι, “dwellers beside,” “sojourners” (Genesis 17:8; Genesis 20:1, &c.). ἘΝ ΣΚΗΝΑΙ͂Σ, i.e. _i...
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...
ΠΑΡΦΚΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΟΙΚΈΩ (G3939) жить в стороне, быть чужаком в чужой земле. Такие чужестранцы обладали определенными правами, хоть и считались временными жителями или иностранцами (TDNT...
DISCOURSE: 2322 ABRAHAM’S LIFE A PATTERN FOR OURS Hebrews 11:8. 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, n...
BY FAITH HE SOJOURNED, &C.— Abraham went from Mesopotamia, at the command of God, and came to Haran, where he dwelt: thence he removed to the land of Canaan, and travelled to the south-west parts of i...
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 LIFE OF ABRAHAM (Hebrews 11:9, Hebrews 11:10) In the preceding article we considered the appearing of the Lord unto idolatrous Abraham in Chaldea, the call which he then received to make a comple...
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: SOJOURNED - as a 'stranger and pilgrim.'...
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...
11:9 foreign (c-15) i.e. not his own....
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...
THE LAND OF PROMISE — More correctly, according to the true reading, _a land of the promise:_ into a land which the promise (Genesis 12:7) made his own he came as a sojourner, and sojourned in it as i...
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...
FAITH'S TRIUMPHS FROM ABEL TO ABRAHAM Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the _sixth_ sense. It makes us as sure of unseen or future things, which we know about only through the divine Word, as we are of things wh...
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...
(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...
9._By faith he sojourned, etc. _The second particular is, that having entered into the land, he was hardly received as a stranger and a sojourner. Where was the inheritance which he had expected? It m...
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...
BY FAITH HE SOJOURNED IN THE LAND OF PROMISE,.... The land of Canaan, so called, because it was promised to Abraham and his seed; and is typical of heaven, which is not by the works of the law, but by...
Having declared the foundation of the faith of Abraham, and given the first signal instance of it, he proceeds to declare his progress in its exercise, first in general, and then in particular acts an...
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as _in_ a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: Ver. 9. _He sojourned in the land_] Ther...
HEB. 11:9-10. BY FAITH HE SOJOURNED IN THE LAND OF PROMISE, AS (IN) A STRANGE COUNTRY, DWELLING IN TABERNACLES WITH ISAAC AND JACOB, THE HEIRS WITH HIM OF THE SAME PROMISE: FOR HE LOOKED FOR A CITY W...
_By faith_, &c. Believing that Canaan was promised to him and his seed only as a type of a better country, he acquired no possessions therein except a burying-place, and built no houses there; but _so...
AS IN A STRANGE COUNTRY; he bought no land except what he wanted for a burying-ground, but lived as a stranger in tents, expecting his permanent abode and possessions in heaven. Genesis 13:3; Genesis...
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...
BY FAITH HE SOJOURNED IN THE LAND OF PROMISE, AS IN A STRANGE COUNTRY; by the same Divine faith he passed from tent to tent, moving it from place to place, as God ordered; so as he rather sojourned th...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews and that[5]...
Hebrews 11:9 faith G4102 dwelt G3939 (G5656) in G1519 land G1093 promise G1860 as G5613 country G245 dwelling...
‘By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise, for he looked for the city which has...
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...
Hebrews 11:9. By faith he received the promise, and still waited for the fulfilment of it. BY FAITH HE SOJOURNED (a temporary resident only) IN THE LAND OF PROMISE (which God had given him) as (if it...
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...
BECAME A SOJOURNER (παρωικησεν). First aorist active indicative of παροικεω, old verb to dwell (οικεω) beside (παρα), common in LXX, in N.T. only here and Luke 24:18. Called παροικον (sojourner) in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AS THOUGH HE WERE A FOREIGNER. He lived in tents, rather than building a city. This fact, along with Isaac and Jacob, is cited as proof that he understood God's promise to involve more than just an ea...
_Abraham_ THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM I. THE FAITH EXHIBITED BY ABRAHAM IN HIS OBEDIENCE TO THE DIVINE CALL. It was neither poverty, nor restless discontent with the monotony of daily toil, that sent him ou...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:8 God called ABRAHAM to leave Haran and go to Canaan (Genesis 12:1). INHERITANCE. Compare...
_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...
Acts 7:5; Acts 7:6; Genesis 12:8; Genesis 13:18; Genesis 13:3;...
He sojourned in [π α ρ ω κ η σ ε ν ε ι ς]. The verb lit. to dwell beside or among. Paroikov, a foreigner dwelling in a state without rights of citizenship. In Class. only in the sense of neighbor. See...
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...
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise — The promise was made before, Genesis 12:7. Dwelling in tents — As a sojourner With Isaac and Jacob — Who by the same manner of living showed the same fai...
The apostle spake of the place which Abraham was called from, in the foregoing verse, namely, out of UR of the CHALDEES: here he speaks of the place he was called to, CANAAN, styled THE LAND OF PROMIS...