Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hebrews 11:15
If they had been mindful of — Their earthly country, Ur of the Chaldeans, they might have easily returned.
If they had been mindful of — Their earthly country, Ur of the Chaldeans, they might have easily returned.
Verse 15. _IF THEY HAD BEEN MINDFUL OF THAT COUNTRY_] They considered their right to the promises of God as dependent on their utter renunciation of Chaldea; and it was this that induced Abraham to c...
AND TRULY IF THEY HAD BEEN MINDFUL OF THAT COUNTRY ... - If they had remembered it with sufficient interest and affection to have made them desirous to return. THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE...
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...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
All these died without obtaining possession of the promises. They only saw them from far away and greeted them from afar, and they admitted that they were strangers and sojourners upon the earth. Now...
TRULY IF. if indeed. IF. Greek. _ei_. App-118. RETURNED. Greek. _anakampto._ See Acts 18:21....
_to have returned_ But they never attempted to return to Mesopotamia, because they were home-sick not for that land but for heaven....
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΟΥΣΙΝ. See the note. 15. ΕἸ ΜῈΝ … ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΟΥΣΙΝ … ΕἾΧΟΝ ἌΝ. The tenses imply the meaning, “Assuming that they bore that land in _continuous_ memory, they would _at all times_ have had &c.” Se...
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...
ΕΚΕΊΝΟΣ (G1565) эта; то есть земная страна. _Gen._ здесь используется после гл. ΈΜΝΗΜΌΝΕΥΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩ (G3421) помнить, хранить в памяти что-л. Ind. используется в _conj._, противо...
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 REWARD OF FAITH (Hebrews 11:15, Hebrews 11:16) Once more we would remind ourselves of the particular circumstances those saints were in to whom our Epistle was first addressed. Only as we do so a...
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. As Abraham, had he desired to leave his pilgrim life in Canaan, and...
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...
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...
THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD. — Rather, _they would have had opportunity to return._ All their life long they would have been able to claim again their earlier fatherland, by returning whence they came....
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...
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 HOPE OF HEAVEN Milligan points out the meaning of the expression "these all died in faith," saying, "they died as they had lived, in faith." He goes on to say that the all referred to includes Abr...
(13) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on 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...
15._And truly if they had been mindful, etc. _He anticipates an objection that might have been made, — that they were strangers because they had left their own country. The apostle meets this objectio...
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...
AND TRULY IF THEY HAD BEEN MINDFUL OF THAT COUNTRY,.... Chaldea, which was Abraham's country: FROM WHENCE THEY CAME OUT; as Abraham and Sarah did, in person, and their posterity in them: THEY MIGHT...
Whereas these patriarchs did thus express their desire of a country, and diligently sought after it, it may be because, having lost their _own country,_ their relations, and enjoyments, meeting with t...
And truly, if they had been mindful of that _country_ from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. Ver. 15. _If they had been mindful_] But to that they had no mind at...
HEB. 11:14-15. FOR THEY THAT SAY SUCH THINGS DECLARE PLAINLY THAT THEY SEEK A COUNTRY. AND TRULY, IF THEY HAD BEEN MINDFUL OF THAT (COUNTRY) FROM WHENCE THEY CAME OUT, THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITY...
_For they that say such things_ That speak of themselves as strangers and pilgrims; _declare plainly that they seek a country_ Different from that in which they dwell. Or rather, that they seek their...
An application of the truths here offered:...
AND TRULY, IF THEY HAD BEEN MINDFUL OF THAT COUNTRY FROM WHENCE THEY CAME OUT, THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE RETURNED....
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...
Though they were strangers in Canaan, yet they might seek an earthly country, even Ur of the Chaldees, from whence they came forth, and which was their native country, and so might be dearer to them t...
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‘And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly, for which reason God is not ashamed...
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 11:15. AND IF INDEED THEY WERE THINKING OF (or mentioning, as in Hebrews 11:22) THAT HOME WHENCE THEY CAME OUT, THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN....
Hebrews 11:13-16. The one attribute of the faith of all these men is that it continued till death. IN FAITH (rather, consistently with it, still looking forward to a glorious future as yet unrealized)...
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...
HAD BEEN MINDFUL (εμνημονευον)--WOULD HAVE HAD (ειχον αν). Condition of second class (note αν in conclusion) with the imperfect (not aorist) in both condition and conclusion. So it means: "If the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
THEY DID NOT THINK BACK. The fact that they did not return to their country of origin (Chaldea) showed that they had renounced all to follow God! Compare Genesis 24:5-8; Acts 7:5....
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:14 The people he has mentioned in vv. Hebrews 11:1 were seeking a BETTER (HEAVENLY)...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Hebrews 11:13_ Living and Dying in Faith.—This rhetorical chapter, reviewing rapidly the stories of the other saints, could not fail to interest the Jewish Christia...
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...
Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:10; Genesis 24:6; Genesis 31:18; Genesis
If they had been mindful [ε ι ε μ ν η μ ο ν ε υ ο ν]. In N. T. habitually remember. So invariably in LXX The meaning here is, that if, in their declaration (ver. 14) that they were seeking a country,...
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...