A good report; they are in Scripture commended as good men, and their faith by which they persevered in duty held up as worthy of imitation to all succeeding ages.
The promise; the great thing promised, namely, the Messiah and the blessings of the gospel.
Verse 39. _HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT_ (HAVING BEEN WITNESSED TO; SEE Hebrews 11:2) _THROUGH FAITH_] It was _faith in God_ which supported all those eminent men who, in different parts of the world...
AND THESE ALL, HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT THROUGH FAITH - They were all commended and approved on account of their confidence in God; see the notes on Hebrews 11:2. RECEIVED NOT THE PROMISE - That...
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
HEBREWS 11:39 F. In two closing verses the lesson of all this heroic past is summarised. By their faith the great men of Israel had received praise from God in His holy word; yet they did not obtain t...
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...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
RECEIVED. Same Greek. word as in 19. See Note there....
_having obtained a good report through faith_ "Having been borne witness to through their faith," i.e. _though_they had this testimony borne to them, they did not see the fulfilment of the promises. _...
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΗΘΈΝΤΕΣ ΔΙᾺ ΤΗ͂Σ ΠΊΣΤΕΩΣ. “_Having been borne witness to through their faith_,” i.e. _though_ they had this testimony borne to them, they did not see the fulfilment of the promises. ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΚΟΜΊΣΑ...
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...
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΗΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΈΩ (G3140) свидетельствовать; _pass._ быть освидетельствованным, получать свидетельство (Hughes; Westcott). Уступительное _part._ ("хотя"), ΈΚΟΜΊΣΑΝΤΟ _aor....
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...
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT - `borne witness of.' Though they were so, yet they "received not the promise" -...
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...
A GOOD REPORT] see on Hebrews 11:2. 40. There is here the answer to an implied objection, that the faith of these suffering heroes was all in vain, seeing they did not receive the fulfilment of the pr...
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...
HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT. — Now that the history is concluded the word of Hebrews 11:2 is resumed. That in such a faith as was described in Hebrews 11:1 “the elders” received their witness from G...
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...
καὶ οὗτοι πάντες, “And these all,” that is, those who have been named in this chapter, “although they had witness borne to them through their faith,” as has been recorded (Hebrews 11:2-38), “did not r...
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...
(16) And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received (y) not the promise: (16) An amplification taken from the circumstance of the time: their faith is so much the more to be mar...
(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...
39._And these all, etc. _This is an argument from the less to the greater; for if they on whom the light of grace had not as yet so brightly shone displayed so great a constancy in enduring evils, wha...
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...
AND THESE ALL HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT THROUGH FAITH,.... This may either be limited to the sufferers in the preceding verses, who were martyred, or suffered martyrdom for the faith, as the words...
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...
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Ver. 39. _Received not the promise_] viz. Of Christ's incarnation....
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...
_These all, having obtained a good report_ Μαρτυρηθεντες, _being witnessed unto_, as persons who did or suffered great things by faith. The expression does not imply that all the Israelitish judges, c...
The author's conclusion:...
AND THESE ALL, HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT THROUGH FAITH, RECEIVED NOT THE PROMISE,...
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...
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...
OLBGrk; The apostle returns in this verse to the proposition laid down in the second verse, which he had been proving by all these examples, and with it shuts up the history of them. AND THESE ALL; al...
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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...
Hebrews 11:39. The Bible is largely a history of faith, its deeds and sufferings and rewards; pre-eminently of the patience and perseverance which belong to it, and which seem essential in a world whe...
THESE ALL (ουτο παντες). The whole list in verses Hebrews 11:5-38. Cf. verse Hebrews 11:13.THROUGH THEIR FAITH (δια πιστεως). Here rather than πιστε as so often.RECEIVED NOT THE PROMISE (ουκ εκο...
FAITH The essence of faith consists in receiving what God has revealed, and may be defined as that trust in the God of the Scriptures and in Jesus Christ whom He hath sent, which receives Him as Savi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WHAT A RECORD! This shows the power of the faith in their lives!!! YET THEY DID NOT RECEIVE. They did not receive the promised heavenly country in their lifetimes on earth! Nor did they see God's Mess...
_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...
1 Peter 1:12; Hebrews 11:13; Hebrews 11:2; Luke 10:23; Luke 10:24...
And all these — Though they obtained a good testimony, Hebrews 11:2, yet did not receive the great promise, the heavenly inheritance....
That is, "All the fore-mentioned scripture saints, with others that lived from the beginning of the world, and the first giving out of the promise of the Messiah, Genesis 3:15 all and every one of the...