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Verse Hebrews 11:12. _HIM AS GOOD AS DEAD_] According to nature, long
past the time of the procreation of children. The birth of Isaac, the
circumstances of the father and mother considered, was entir...
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THEREFORE SPRANG THERE EVEN OF ONE - From a single individual. What is
observed here by the apostle as worthy of remark, is, that the whole
Jewish people sprang from one man, and that, as the reward o...
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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
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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...
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THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
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It was by faith that Sarah, too, received power to conceive and to
bear a son, although she was beyond the age for it, for she believed
that he who gave the promise could be absolutely relied upon. So...
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SPRANG. were begotten.
HIM, &C. = and that too, one having become dead. Greek. _nekroo._ See
Romans 4:19.
STARS, SAND. Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17;...
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_as the stars … as the sand_ Genesis 22:17; Deuteronomy 1:10....
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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...
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ΤᾺ ἌΣΤΡΑ Κ.Τ.Λ. Genesis 22:17; Deuteronomy 1:10.
ΤῸ ΧΕΙ͂ΛΟΣ. Comp. “_labrum_ fossae” Liv. XXXVII. 37....
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_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...
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THEREFORE SPRANG THERE, &C.— "By this mighty principle of faith in
her, and in Abraham, there sprang even from one father, and he, in
this respect, as it were dead, a posterity in multitude as the sta...
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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
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THE FAITH OF SARAH
(Hebrews 11:11, Hebrews 11:12)
In the verses which are now to be before us the apostle calls
attention to the marvelous power of a God-given faith to exercise
itself in the presenc...
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Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many
as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the
sea shore innumerable.
AS GOOD AS DEAD, [ nenekroomenou ...
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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...
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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...
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OF ONE] i.e. Abraham....
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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...
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THE STARS OF THE SKY. — Better, _the stars of the heaven._ (See
Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17.)
AND AS THE SAND. — “And as the sand by the seashore, which is
innumerable” (Genesis 22:17). With the first...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM
Like Noah, Abraham displayed actions of faith when he received the
call from God (Genesis 12:1-3), even though he was to leave the safety
of his homeland and go to a place unknown...
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Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as (f) dead, [so
many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is
by the sea shore innumerable.
(f) As unlikely to bear childre...
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_Hid as dead: dead in a manner in that respect, and incapable of
having children by Sara [Sarah]. (Witham)_
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
Et hoc emortuo: the ordinary Greek copies have, _Greek: kai tauta
nenek rom...
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(8) By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which
he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out,
not knowing whither he went. (9) By faith he sojourned in the...
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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...
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12._Therefore sprang there even of one, etc. _He now also reminds the
Jews, that it was by faith that they were the descendants of Abraham;
for he was as it were half dead, (220) and Sarah his wife, w...
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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...
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Ver. 12 THEREFORE SPRANG THERE EVEN OF ONE,.... That is, Abraham: the
Arabic version has here a strange interpolation;
"this faith Isaac and Rebecca conceived in mind, and so there were
born of one,...
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In this verse we have an illustration of the fruit of the faith before
declared, by the eminent consequent of it, in the numerous or
innumerable posterity of Abraham.
Hebrews 11:12. Διὸ καὶ ἀφ᾿ ἑνὸς...
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Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, _so many_
as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the
sea shore innumerable.
Ver. 12. _As the stars, &c._] The s...
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HEB. 11:12-13. THEREFORE SPRANG THERE EVEN OF ONE, AND HIM AS GOOD AS
DEAD, (SO MANY) AS THE STARS OF THE SKY IN MULTITUDE, AND AS THE SAND
WHICH IS BY THE SEA SHORE INNUMERABLE. THESE ALL DIED IN FA...
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_Through faith also Sara_ Though at first she laughed at the promise
through unbelief; _received strength_ Εις καταβολην
σπερματος, _for the conception of seed; and was delivered of
a child when she w...
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SARAH; GENESIS 21:1-2; Genesis 22:17....
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Great events for this world as well as the future, depend on the
exercise of faith in God; and things which affect vast multitudes for
time and eternity, are accomplished through its influence, which...
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The example of Abraham and Sarah:...
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THEREFORE SPRANG THERE EVEN OF ONE, AND HIM AS GOOD AS DEAD, SO MANY
AS THE STARS OF THE SKY IN MULTITUDE, AND AS THE SAND WHICH IS BY THE
SEASHORE INNUMERABLE.
Since he was the father of the Old Test...
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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...
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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...
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Because of this faith of Abraham and Sarah, and the fruit of it in
conceiving and bringing forth Isaac, was laid the foundation of a
numerous seed by God's promise; from Abraham, a hundred, and Sarah,...
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Hebrews 11:12 G2532 Therefore G1352 from G575 one G1520 and G2532 him
G5023 dead G3499 (G5772) born...
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‘By faith even Sarah herself received power for the laying down of
seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had
promised, for which reason also there sprang of one, and him as go...
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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...
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Hebrews 11:12. WHEREFORE ALSO (a common Pauline expression, Romans
4:22; Romans 15:22, etc.) FROM ONE (the emphatic part) SPRANG THERE,
etc. from a single, nay a lifeless, source sprang there a race l...
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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...
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AND THAT AS GOOD AS DEAD
(κα ταυτα νενεκρωμενου). Accusative of general
reference (ταυτα), sometimes singular as in 1 Corinthians 6:8.
The perfect passive participle from νεκροω, late verb to make...
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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...
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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...
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Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen. For by it the elder obtained a good
report._
So it was written, in the olden time, that believers «obta...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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THOUGH HE WAS PRACTICALLY DEAD. A man who had reached his age without
a son, could not reasonably expect to have one! The birth of Isaac was
a supernormal event! From THIS ONE MAN. God kept his promis...
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HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:11 SARAH. See Genesis 21:1. Sarah first
laughed, apparently in unbelief ...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
Hebrews 11:7. RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS BY FAITH.—Which is according to
faith. “Faith in this writer never becomes the same as mystic
oneness with Christ, but means genera...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 27:23; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Samuel 12:5; 2 Samuel 17:11;...
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As good as dead [ν ε ν ε κ ρ ω μ ε ν ο υ]. Comp. Romans
4:19. As good as is an addition of A. V. The Greek reads and that a
dead man. Comp. nekrwsin deadness applied to Sarah, Romans 4:19.
Stars - san...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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As it were dead — Till his strength was supernaturally restored,
which continued for many years after....
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These words acquaint us with that gratuitous remuneration and gracious
reward which God gave Abraham and Sarah, as the fruit of the faith,
namely, the blessing of. numerous posterity; there sprang of...