Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins
What, then, is the Paraclete's administrative office but this: the direction of discipline, the revelation of the Scriptures, the reformation of the intellect, the advancement toward the "better things? "[5]
Verse Hebrews 11:40. _GOD HAVING PROVIDED SOME BETTER THING FOR US_] This is the dispensation of the Gospel, with all the privileges and advantages it confers. _THAT THEY WITHOUT US SHOULD NOT BE MA...
GOD HAVING PROVIDED SOME BETTER THING FOR US - Margin, “foreseen.” That is, “God having provided, or determined on giving some better thing than any of them realized, and which we are now permitted to...
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 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...
PROVIDED. Greek. _problepo._ Only here. FOR. concerning. Greek. _peri_. App-104. MADE PERFECT. perfected. Greek. _teleioo._ App-125. Compare Hebrews 2:10....
_God having provided some better thing for us_ Lit., "Since God provided" (or "foresaw") "some better thing concerning us." In one sense Abraham, and therefore other patriarchs "rejoiced to see Christ...
ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂ … ΠΡΟΒΛΕΨΑΜΈΝΟΥ. Lit., “_since God provided_” (or “foresaw”) “_some better thing concerning us_.” The _middle voice_ is used because it differs from the active by expressing a _mental_ act;...
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...
_BLESSINGS OF THE FAITH SYSTEM -- HEBREWS 11:39-40:_ These worthy and godly people obtained a good report with God, but they did not live long enough to receive the promise of the coming Messiah. "But...
ΠΡΟΒΛΕΨΑΜΈΝΟΥ _aor. med. part._ (причины) ΠΡΟΒΛΈΠΩ (G4265) предвидеть, видеть заранее, иметь предвидение, приготавливать. _Gen. abs._ ΧΩΡΊΣ (G5565) с _gen._ без. ΤΕΛΕΙΩΘΏΣΙΝ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΤΕ...
DISCOURSE: 2333 THE ADVANTAGES ENJOYED UNDER THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 11:39. _These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some bett...
AND THESE ALL, HAVING OBTAINED, &C.— "All these pious heroes, in different ages, were supported under their respective trials, severe and extreme as they were, by the exercise of a firm and lively fai...
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 FAMILY OF FAITH (Hebrews 11:39, Hebrews 11:40) "And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they with...
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. PROVIDED - with divine forethought from eternity (cf. Genesis 22:8; Genesis 22:14). SOME BETTER THIN...
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...
FOR US. — Rather, _concerning us, that without_ (or, _apart from_)_ us they should not be made perfect. “_Some better thing” — better than they had received (Matthew 13:17; 1 Peter 1:10). The design o...
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...
God having provided some better thing for us, that they (z) without us should not be made perfect. (z) For their salvation depended on Christ, who was exhibited in our days....
(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...
REFLECTIONS BLESSED be God the Holy Ghost, the Almighty Author of his sacred Word, for this precious Chapter, which he hath so graciously given to the Church Of God! for the Lord the Spirit, who hath...
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...
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...
GOD HAVING PROVIDED SOME BETTER THING FOR US,.... Not a better state of the church, in such respect, as to be free from suffering reproach and persecutions; for this is the case of saints under the Ne...
Καὶ οὗτοι πάντες ¸ μαρτυρηθέντες διὰ τῆς πίστεως, οὐκ ἐκομίσαντο τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν· τοῦ Θεοῦ περὶ ἡμῶν κρεῖττόν τι προβλεψαμένου, ἵνα μὴ χωρὶς ἡμῶν τελειωθῶσι. Hebrews 11:39. And these all, having obtai...
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Ver. 40. _Some better thing_] i. e. Christ, that great mystery, as 1 Timothy 3:16; that chief of ten tho...
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...
_God having provided some better thing for us_ Believers under the gospel, than any bestowed upon them, which _better thing_ is Christ himself manifest in the flesh, with the various privileges and bl...
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...
SOME BETTER THING; the fulfilment of God's promises in the coming of Christ and the blessings which he conferred. NOT BE MADE PERFECT; without the fulfilment of these promises, which we witness, and...
GOD HAVING PROVIDED SOME BETTER THING FOR US, THAT THEY WITHOUT US SHOULD NOT BE MADE PERFECT. In this respect the believers of old serve as excellent examples: And these all, although they were testi...
The author's conclusion:...
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...
PROVIDED: Or, foreseen...
39,40 The world considers that the righteous are not worthy to live in the world, and God declares the world is not worthy of them. Though the righteous and the worldlings widely differ in their judg...
GOD HAVING PROVIDED SOME BETTER THING FOR US: the causes of their not receiving the promise, are summed up in this verse; the efficient of it is God's providence unto believers before and after the in...
Hebrews 11:40 God G2316 provided G4265 (G5671) something G5100 better G2909 for G4012 us G2257 that G3363 should
THE CONCLUSION (HEBREWS 11:39). ‘And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided (literally ‘foreseen') some better thing concern...
GOD HAVING PROVIDED (του θεου προβλεψαμενου). Genitive absolute with first aorist middle participle of προβλεπω, late compound to foresee, here only in the N.T.SOME BETTER THING (κρειττον τ). "So...
PERFECT (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
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...
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...
BECAUSE. God's promise has not failed!!! He had something better, which they could not even imagine (1 Corinthians 2:9). HIS PURPOSE. That they and we might be made complete in the New Jerusalem!!! Th...
_These all … received not the promise_ WHAT OF THE SAINTLY DEAD PRIOR TO THE COMING OF CHRIST? It is altogether probable that among the Jewish Christians there would be great anxiety to know what had...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:39 COMMENDED THROUGH THEIR FAITH. See vv. Hebrews 11:2,...
_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...
Hebrews 10:11; Hebrews 12:23; Hebrews 12:24; Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 7
God having provided some better thing for us — Namely, everlasting glory. That they might not be perfected without us — That is, that we might all be perfected together in heaven....
The better thing here spoken of is the coming of Christ in the flesh. Lord! what were we, and how are we better than they, that this better thing should be reserved for us? They saw the promise afar o...