But they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly — This is a full convincing proof that the patriarchs had a revelation and a promise of eternal glory in heaven. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: seeing he hath prepared for them a city — Worthy of God to give.
Verse 16. _BUT NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER_] They all expected _spiritual blessings_, and a _heavenly inheritance_; they sought God as their _portion_, and in such a way and on such principles that he i...
BUT NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY, THAT IS, AN HEAVENLY - That is, at the time referred to when they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners, they showed that they sought a better country...
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...
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...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
NOW. as. matter of fact. DESIRE. Greek. _oregomai._ Only here, 1 Timothy 3:1; 1 Timothy 6:10. HEAVENLY. See Hebrews 3:1. ASHAMED. See...
_But now_ "But, as the case now is." _they desire_ The word means, "they are yearning for," "they stretch forth their hands towards." _is not ashamed to be called their God_ Rather, "is not ashamed...
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...
ΝΥ͂Ν ΔΈ. “_But, as the case now is_.” ὈΡΈΓΟΝΤΑΙ. The word means, “_they are yearning for_,” “_they stretch forth their hands towards_.” ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΠΑΙΣΧΎΝΕΤΑΙ ΑΥ̓ΤΟῪΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. “_Is not ashamed of them, to...
_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...
ΝΎΝ (G3568) теперь; то есть "истина в том" "дело в том, что" (Bruce), ΟΡΈΓΟΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΟΡΈΓΟΜΑΙ (G3713) тянуться; фигурально: стремиться, желать, мечтать (RWP; BAGD; _см._ 1 Tim...
DISCOURSE: 2324 THE CHRISTIAN’S DESIRE Hebrews 11:16. _Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God_. WHEREVER the Gospel is faithfully...
BUT NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY,— This made them carry their thoughts still further; and since they did not enjoy Canaan, nor see how Canaan could answer their expectations, they _desired_ and ex...
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...
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. Proving that the old fathers did not 'look onl...
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 confess themselves but sojourners (Hebrews 11:13), and thus make it plain that they are still seeking their true home (14); and yet, if. they had sought nothing more than an earthly home, there 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...
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...
_A PREPARED CITY_ ‘Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a city.’ Hebrews 11:16 What are the special qualities of the town through which the Divine can...
16._Wherefore God is not ashamed, etc. _He refers to that passage, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” (Exodus 3:6.) It is a singular honor when God makes men illustriou...
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...
BUT NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY,.... Which is not to be understood of the then present time, in which the apostle wrote; for the patriarchs, of whom he speaks, were not then on earth, nor in any...
The apostle hereon draws another inference, wherein he expresseth the true, real object of their faith and desires, with the great advantage and dignity which they obtained thereon. Hebrews 11:16. Νυ...
But now they desire a better _country_, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. Ver. 16. _God is not ashamed_] But honoureth t...
HEB. 11:16. BUT NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER (COUNTRY), THAT IS, A HEAVENLY: WHEREFORE GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO BE CALLED THEIR GOD: FOR HE HATH PREPARED FOR THEM A CITY. In October 1751, in Northampton, a...
_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...
GOD IS NOT ASHAMED; because they place such confidence in him and desire such pure and elevated joys, he has prepared for them a permanent abode and unending bliss in heaven. God is ashamed of those w...
BUT NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY, THAT IS, AN HEAVENLY; WHEREFORE GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO BE CALLED THEIR GOD; FOR HE HATH PREPARED FOR THEM A CITY. The sacred writer here shows that his definition...
An application of the truths here offered:...
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...
BUT NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY, THAT IS, AN HEAVENLY: having deserted this world, as strangers in it, they sought, desired, and hoped for with the greatest earnestness and fervency, a city in th...
Origen Commentary on John Book II For it was a great gift to the Patriarchs that God in place of His own name should add their name to His own designation as God, as Paul says,[48]...
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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 11:16. BUT NOW (the case is that, see chap. Hebrews 8:6) THEY DESIRE A BETTER, THAT IS, A HEAVENLY (home); WHEREFORE GOD IS NOT ASHAMED OF THEM, TO BE CALLED THEIR GOD. Of old He honoured them...
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...
THEY DESIRE (ορεγοντα). Present middle indicative of ορεγω, old word for stretching out after, yearning after as in 1 Timothy 3:1.THEIR GOD (θεος αυτων). Predicate nominative with the epexegetic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE HEAVENLY COUNTRY. Their faith pointed them to this heavenly country! See Philippians 3:20. AND SO GOD IS NOT ASHAMED. He might have been ashamed, if he failed to fulfill the promise. This proves t...
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...
Acts 7:32; Exodus 3:15; Exodus 3:6; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:8;...
Now they desire [ν υ ν ο ρ ε γ ο ν τ α ι]. Nun now is logical : as the case now stands. For ojregontai desire, see on 1 Timothy 3:1. Is not ashamed [ο υ κ ε π α ι σ χ υ ν ε τ α ι]. Because they have c...
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...