NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Hebrews 11:30
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third "What have they borne? "said I. "Listen," said she: "scourges, prisons, great tribulations, crosses, wild beasts,[6]
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third "What have they borne? "said I. "Listen," said she: "scourges, prisons, great tribulations, crosses, wild beasts,[6]
Verse 30. _THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL DOWN_] This is particularly explained Joshua 6:1, c. God had promised that the walls of Jericho should fall down, if they compassed them about seven days. They _be...
BY FAITH THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL DOWN ... - Josephus, Hebrews 6:12. That is, it was not by any natural causes, or by any means that were in themselves adapted to secure such a result. It was not bec...
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 survey now passes from the age of the patriarchs to that of Moses and the Judges. It was the faith of his parents that saved Moses in his infancy; and his life, when he grew to manhood, had faith...
It was by faith that the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. It was by faith that Rahab, the harlot, did not perish with the disobedient because she had welcomed t...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
COMPASSED ABOUT. encircled. Greek. _kukloo_. See Acts 14:20. SEVEN DAYS. for (Greek. _epi_. App-104.) seven days....
_the walls of Jericho fell down_ Joshua 4:12-20....
ἹΕΡΕΙΧΏ. Joshua 6:12-20. ἝΠΕΣΑΝ. Neuters plur. sometimes take a plur. verb where the inanimate objects stand out in their plurality and separateness. Winer, p. 645. ἘΠῚ ἙΠΤᾺ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ. Ἐπὶ with the acc....
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...
ΤΕΊΧΗ _пот. pl. от_ ΤΕΊΧΟΣ (G5038) стена, _pl._ — о стенах, идущих вокруг чего-л. (BAGD). ΈΠΕΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΊΠΤΩ (G4098) падать. _Aor._ обозначает событие, о котором ведется повествование,...
DISCOURSE: 2329 THE WALLS OF JERICHO THROWN DOWN BY FAITH Hebrews 11:30. _By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days_. HOW intelligent creatures should be aff...
BY FAITH THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL DOWN,— The faith which the apostle here commends, was the faith not only of Joshua, but also of all the pious priests, and of all the religious people. They believed...
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 FAITH OF ISRAEL (Hebrews 11:30) In the preceding verse we had the faith of the believing remnant of Israel under the command and example of Moses, in our present text we have an exhibition and tr...
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. Trumpets, though one were to sound for ten thousand years, cannot throw down walls; but faith can do all things...
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...
SEVEN DAYS. — It is the persistence of Israel’s obedience (in the midst, we cannot doubt, of the unmeasured contempt and ridicule of their foes) during the seven days of almost total inaction (Joshua...
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...
The writer passes from the patriarchal age to the times of Moses and the Judges. First the faith of the parents of Moses (τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, in Stephanus' _Thesaur_, several examples are given of the...
MAKING THE FAR-SEEING CHOICE Hebrews 11:23 Faith-we cannot say it too often-is the direct vision of the soul. It doesn't reason, it doesn't ask for evidences, it doesn't seek the corroboration of spi...
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...
(13) By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. (13) Jericho....
The following examples are clear enough, if we look into the history and particular actions of those here named. It was a faith in God's mercies and promises that gave them courage, resolution, and pe...
(20) By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. (21) By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. (22)...
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...
30._By faith the walls of Jericho fell, etc. _As he had before taught us, that the yoke of bondage was by faith broken asunder, so now he tells us, that by the same faith the people gained the possess...
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 THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL DOWN,.... Of themselves, not from any natural cause: the Jews say n they sunk right down into the ground, and were swallowed up; even the whole wall fell round about...
In this verse the apostle adds another instance of the faith of the whole congregation, in the sense before declared; for although respect no doubt be had unto the faith of Joshua in an especial manne...
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. Ver. 30. _By faith the walls of Jericho_] So do daily the strongholds of hell, 2 Corinthians 10:4. _See Trapp on ...
HEB. 11:28-31. THROUGH FAITH HE KEPT THE PASSOVER, AND THE SPRINKLING OF BLOOD, LEST HE THAT DESTROYED THE FIRSTBORN SHOULD TOUCH THEM. BY FAITH THEY PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA AS BY DRY (LAND): WHICH...
_By faith_ The faith of Joshua and the Israelites in God's promise; _the walls of Jericho fell down_ Being smitten by the hand of God, without any human force; _after they were compassed about_ In sol...
COMPASSED ABOUT; with confidence that God would cause the walls of the city to fall as he had said. Joshua 6:15-20....
The achievements of faith in the times of Joshua and later:...
BY FAITH THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL DOWN AFTER THEY WERE COMPASSED ABOUT SEVEN DAYS....
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...
20-31 Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning things to come. Things present are not the best things; no man knoweth love or hatred by having them or wanting them. Jacob lived by faith, and he died...
This Divine faith, exercised by Joshua and Israel after their entrance into the Land of Promise, (who did, on God's word and command, compass the impregnable walls of Jericho once every day for six da...
Hebrews 11:30 faith G4102 walls G5038 Jericho G2410 down G4098 (G5627) encircled G2944 (G5685) for G1909 seven...
FAITH THAT RECEIVED MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCES IN THE COURSE OF THE FULFILMENT OF GOD'S PROMISES (HEBREWS 11:29)....
‘By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encompassed about for seven days.' The same faith was revealed at the end of the journey by a new generation, led by a new leader Joshua,...
Hebrews 11:30. The writer now leaves the Book of the Law for the Book of Joshua, the record of the conquest of the land and of the complete fulfilment of the ancient promise. BY FAITH (of Joshua and t...
FELL DOWN (επεσαν). "Fell," second aorist active indicative of πιπτω with first aorist endings as often in the _Koine_.AFTER THEY HAD BEEN COMPASSED (κυκλωθεντα). First aorist passive participle...
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...
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...
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...
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 WALLS OF JERICHO. Joshua 6:8-21. Archeology has verified that the walls fell outward!...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:30 At JERICHO, the Israelites followed God’s commandment before receiving the promised victory (Joshua 6:1)....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Hebrews 11:30_ Faith seen in the Jericho Associations.—“The sacred writer has lingered over the life and deeds of the greatest of the patriarchs, and of Moses the l...
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...
2 Corinthians 10:4; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Joshua 6:3...
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...
MOSES FAITHFUL IN ALL HIS HOUSE Hebrews 11:23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are seven things which Moses did, as outlined in Hebrews 11:24, which we want to notice. 1. MOSES REFUSED. The first great ste...
By the faith of Joshua....
After the faith of Moses and the Israelites at the Red Sea, we have here the faith of Joshua and the Israelites before Jericho, recorded and related. Jericho was. walled and well-fenced city, and. fro...