Hebrews 11:1
What meaning of the hebrews 11:1 in the Bible?
What does Hebrews 11:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now faith is the substancea of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
What does Hebrews 11:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now faith is the substancea of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
HEBREWS 11:1 u`po,stasij( pragma,twn {A} The scribe of î13, a third or fourth century papyrus copy, thoughtlessly wrote pragma,twn avna,stasij. 8 ------------------------- 8 According to H. D. F....
CHAPTER XI. _A definition of faith_, 1, 2. _What are its immediate objects_, 3. _What are its effects, instanced in Abel_, 4 _In Enoch_, 5, 6. _In Noah_, 7. _In Abraham_, 8-10. _In Sara_, 11....
NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR - On the general nature of faith, see the notes on Mark 16:16. The margin here is, “ground or confidence.” There is scarcely any verse of the New Testame...
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 11:1 F. The chapter opens with a definition of faith as the assurance whereby we lay hold of things still in the future, and the proving_ i.e._ the inward certainty which is stronger than any...
Faith means that we are certain of the things we hope for, convinced of the thing we do not see. It was because of faith that the men of old time had their record attested. It is by faith that we unde...
FAITH. Greek. _pi_ stis. App-150. SUBSTANCE. Greek. _hupostasis._ See Hebrews 1:3 and 2 Corinthians 9:4. Used of title-deeds in the Papyri. EVIDENCE. proof. Greek. _elenchos._ Only here and 2 Timoth...
_Now faith_ Since he has said "we are of faith to gaining of the soul," the question might naturally arise, What then is faith? It is nowhere defined in Scripture, nor is it defined here, for the writ...
ἜΣΤΙΝ ΔῈ ΠΊΣΤΙΣ. “_But faith_ IS &c.” Since he has said “we are _of faith_ to gaining of the soul,” the question might naturally arise, What then is faith? It is nowhere defined in Scripture, nor is i...
_AN EXPLANATION OF SAVING FAITH -- HEBREWS 11:1-3 :_ The writer described that faith whereby the just man lives in these words, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things...
ΈΣΤΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть. Эмфатическое положение слова может указывать на стиль определения (Michel). ΠΊΣΤΙΣ (G4102) вера. Это терпеливое ожидание и преданность тому, что Христос...
DISCOURSE: 2317 THE NATURE OF FAITH Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen_. CONSIDERING how much the Scriptures speak of faith, one is surpris...
NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE, &C.— These verses may be paraphrased thus: "As I have now observed, that faith avails to the salvation of the soul, and intend, in the next place, largely to prove it; it c...
PART THREE _THE NATURE, DEVELOPMENT AND DUTIES OF FAITH. Hebrews 11:1 to Hebrews 13:25_ I. _The nature of faith. Hebrews 11:1-3_ _TEXT_ Hebrews 11:1-3 Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is assurance of thing...
THE EXCELLENCY OF FAITH (Hebrews 11:1-3) Ere we take up the contents of the 11th chapter let us briefly review the sound already covered. Chapter s 1 and 2 are more or less introductory in their char...
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. FAITH - in its widest sense: not restricted to faith in the Gospel. Not a definition of faith in its whole nature,...
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...
11:1 substantiating (f-5) Or 'assurance,' 'firm conviction.' see ch. 3.14....
RV renders, 'Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen.' The word represented here by 'assurance' is rendered 'substance' in Hebrews 1:3; RV and 'confidence' in He...
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...
We have seen how the writer approached the subject which is the chief theme of this last division of this Epistle. The coming of the Lord, for judgment upon His adversaries, for salvation to His peopl...
CHAPTER X. FAITH AN ASSURANCE AND A PROOF. "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen. For therein the elders had witness borne to them. By faith we understand t...
Ἔστιν δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις … “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof [manifestation] of things not seen”. When ἔστι stands first in a sentence it sometimes means “there exists,”...
FAITH'S TRIUMPHS FROM ABEL TO ABRAHAM Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the _sixth_ sense. It makes us as sure of unseen or future things, which we know about only through the divine Word, as we are of things w...
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...
UNDERSTANDING FAITH"Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1 A.S.V.). It appears the King James translators got the full meaning of the word "substanc...
Now (1) faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (1) An excellent description of faith by the effects, because it represents things which are but yet in hope, and...
All this chapter is a commendation and recommendation of faith, which _is the substance [1] of things hoped for, giving as it were a substance in our minds to such things as we are in hopes and in exp...
CONTENTS Here is the Record of Old Testament Saints, who lived and died, triumphant in Faith. The sweet Assurance to New Testament Believers that they, and all the Faithful, will together be made per...
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...
_PROGRESS IN RELIGIOUS CONVICTION_ ‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’ Hebrews 11:1 All religious conviction proceeds from God and cannot proceed from...
1._Now faith, etc. _Whoever made this the beginning of the eleventh chapter, has unwisely disjointed the context; for the object of the Apostle was to prove what he had already said that there is nee...
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...
NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR,.... The "faith" here spoken of is not a mere moral virtue, which is a branch of the law; nor a bare assent to anything revealed, declared, and affirmed...
The first verse gives such a description of the nature of faith, as evidenceth its fitness and meetness unto the effecting of the great work assigned unto it, namely, the preservation of believers in...
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Ver. 1. _Now faith is the substance_] Having mentioned the life of faith, Hebrews 10:38, and the end of faith (or the...
HEB. 11:1. NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. _ Blank Bible: _ "Vid. No. 66 - the word ?p?stas?? here used signifies confidence in 2 Corinthians 9:4; 2...
Knowing that the believing Hebrews had been, and still were exposed to persecution on account of the gospel, and fearing lest they should be thereby cast down, and moved from their steadfastness, the...
At the close of the preceding chapter, mention was made of "them that believe to the saving of the soul." Now follows a description of faith and an illustration of its power from the example of the an...
NOW, FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN....
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...
SUBSTANCE: Or, ground, or confidence...
1-3 Faith always has been the mark of God's servants, from the beginning of the world. Where the principle is planted by the regenerating Spirit of God, it will cause the truth to be received, concer...
OLBGrk; HERBREWS CHAPTER 11 HEBREWS 11:1 The nature of faith, and its acceptableness with God, set forth in the examples of many excellent persons of old time. NOW FAITH: the Holy Spirit proceeds in t...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II "For hereby," pre-eminently, "the elders obtained a good report. But without faith it is impossible to please God."[21] Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book...
Hebrews 11:1 Now G1161 faith G4102 is G2076 (G5748) substance G5287 for G1679 (G5746) evidence G1650 things G4229 not G3756 seen G991 (G5746) faith - Hebrews 11:13, Hebrews 10:22, Hebrews 10:39
TRUE FAITH IS FAITH IN GOD'S PROMISES (HEBREWS 11:1). Hebrews 11:1, ‘Now faith is assurance (hupostasis - ‘the substance' or ‘the underpinning' and therefore the ‘assurance', the ‘guarantee within th...
CHAP. Hebrews 11:1. Having affirmed that our distinguishing quality as Christians is not apostasy, but faith, and that the issue in our case is not perdition, but the gaining of that life of the soul...
NOW FAITH IS (εστιν δε πιστις). He has just said that "we are of faith" (Hebrews 10:39), not of apostasy. Now he proceeds in a chapter of great eloquence and passion to illustrate his point by a re...
Hebrews 11:1 Faith and Things Hoped for and Unseen. I. Faith appears at first sight a very simple thing; it is nothing else but believing the word of God. We know what it is to receive the word of a...
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...
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...
TO HAVE FAITH. See note on James 2:19 about the nature of faith. TO BE SURE. Faith is the foundation on which all our hopes for the future are built. TO BE CERTAIN. Faith makes us able to treat as _re...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:1 ASSURANCE. Or “confidence” (Hebrews 3:14). HOPED FOR. On hope, see Hebrews 6:11, Hebrews 6:18; Hebrews 10:23. CONVICTION OF THINGS NOT SEEN. Faith is a settled confidence...
ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAITH AS A PRACTICAL POWER IN LIFE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THIS chapter contains a series of illustrations, taken from the heroic ages of Hebrew history, of the nature and i...
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 Corinthians 13:13; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 1:8; 2 Corinthians 11:17; 2 Corinthians 4:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; 2 Corinthians 9:4; 2 Peter 1:1; Acts 20:21;...
Faith [π ι σ τ ι ς]. Without the article, indicating that it is treated in its abstract conception, and not merely as Christian faith. It is important that the preliminary definition should be clearly...
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...
The definition of faith given in this verse, and exemplified in the various instances following, undoubtedly includes justifying faith, but not directly as justifying. For faith justifies only as it r...
Observe here, 1. The thing described, or the subject spoken of, and that is faith; that faith whereby the just man lives, the apostle here speaks of, though not as justifying, but as it is effectually...