Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hebrews 11:38
Of whom the world was not worthy — It did not deserve so great a blessing. They wandered — Being driven out from men.
Of whom the world was not worthy — It did not deserve so great a blessing. They wandered — Being driven out from men.
Verse 38. _OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY_] Yet they were obliged to wander by day in _deserts_ and _mountains_, driven from the society of men, and often obliged to hide by night in dens and caves...
OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY - The world was so wicked that it had no claim that such holy men should live in it. These poor, despised, and persecuted people, living as outcasts and wanderers, wer...
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...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
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...
IN. The texts read _epi_. App-104. DENS. Greek. _spelaion._ See Luke 19:46. CAVES. Greek. _ope_. Only here and James 3:11 (place)....
_was not worthy_ The world was unworthy of them though it treated them as worthless. The Greek would also admit the meaning that they outweighed in value the whole world (see Proverbs 8:11, LXX.). _in...
ΟΥ̓Κ ἮΝ ἌΞΙΟΣ. The world was unworthy of them though it treated _them_ as worthless. The Greek would also admit the meaning that they outweighed in value the whole world (see Proverbs 8:11, LXX.). The...
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...
ΏΝ _gen. masc. pl. от_ ΌΣ (G3739) кто, который, rel.prop.; "которых" ήν _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΚΌΣΜΟΣ (G2889) мир. ΈΡΗΜΊΑ (G2047) пустыня, ΠΛΑΝΏΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ Π...
DISCOURSE: 2332 GOD’S ESTIMATE OF HIS PEOPLE Hebrews 11:38. _Of whom the world was not worthy_. THESE words are introduced in a parenthesis; and are intended to obviate an objection, which might weak...
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 11:37, Hebrews 11:38) There has been no greater instance of the degeneracy of human nature and its likeness to the Devil than in the fearful fact that so many who have...
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY - So far from their being unworthy of living in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A BETTER THING IS PROVIDED FOR THOSE FOLLOWING CHRIST The way the men and women of faith lived set them above the people around them, much like Noah who was also a man of faith (Genesis 6:1-22; Genesi...
(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...
_SAINTS OF GOD_ ‘Of whom the world was not worthy.’ Hebrews 11:38 This chapter contains the roll of ‘the sacramental host of God’s elect,’ who suffered many things for Him, but they glorified Him i...
38._Of whom the world was not worthy, etc. _As the holy Prophets wandered as fugitives among wild beasts, they might have seemed unworthy of being sustained on the earth; for how was it that they coul...
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...
OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY,.... These words are inserted in a parenthesis, to remove or prevent such objections as these; that they were restless and unquiet persons, that made disturbance in th...
The apostle hath not yet finished his account of the sufferings of these worthies; yet he thought meet to interpose _a character of their persons._ For men in this course of life might be looked on, a...
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and _in_ mountains, and _in_ dens and caves of the earth. Ver. 38. _Of whom the world_] They were fitter to be set as stars in heaven, an...
HEB. 11:38-40. OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY: THEY WANDERED IN DESERTS, AND (IN) MOUNTAINS, AND (IN) DENS AND CAVES OF THE EARTH. AND THESE ALL, HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT THROUGH FAITH, RECEIVE...
_They were stoned_ As Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, 2 Chronicles 24:21. See also Matthew 23:31; _they were sawn asunder_ As, according to the tradition of the Jews, Isaiah was by Manasseh; _were tem...
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...
( OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY;) THEY WANDERED IN DESERTS, AND IN MOUNTAINS, AND IN DENS AND CAVES OF THE EARTH. After the children of Israel had finally crossed the Jordan by another miracle, the...
The achievements of faith in the times of Joshua and later:...
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...
OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY: the Spirit intermixeth an account of what these persons were who were so treated, lest the reader or hearer of these things might be mistaken of them, judging them to...
Revelation of Paul And behold a voice to them: Whence have ye come? And they answered and said: We have come from those who have held themselves aloof from the world and the things in the world for T...
Hebrews 11:38 whom G3739 world G2889 was G2258 (G5713) not G3756 worthy G514 wandered G4105 (G5746) in...
‘And others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tested, they were slain with the sword, they went about i...
Hebrews 11:38.... IN CAVES (clefts of the mountain, ending in chambers); IN HOLES, openings of any kind true of Elijah at Horeb, of Elisha at Carmel, and of the prophets hidden by Obadiah....
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...
OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY (ων ουκ ην αξιος ο κοσμος) Graphic picture in a short parenthetical relative clause (ων, genitive plural with αξιος), a phrase to stir the blood of the readers.WAND...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
Hebrews 11:38 Great Men. I. It behoves us to have a care how we judge the men of our own day who take a leading part in the conduct of affairs, and compel the notice of their fellows. It is easy enou...
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...
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...
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...
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 WORLD. The world shows it isn't worthy of them, by rejecting them! Compare Acts 22:22. THEY WANDERED. 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Samuel 24:3; and many more examples are given in the Books of Maccabees....
_They were stoned_ MARTYRDOM: The word “martyr” properly means “a witness,” but is used to denote exclusively one who has suffered death for the Christian faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the chief a...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:38 DENS AND CAVES. Especially associated with prophets in hiding (1 Kings 18:4,...
_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 Kings 14:12; 1 Kings 14:13; 1 Kings 17:3; 1 Kings 18:13; 1 Kings