The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:11-12
By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, even when she was past age , because she judged him faithful who had promised. 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. The vitality of Abraham's faith is represented as evinced by its surviving and triumphing over a succession of trials, over apparent impossibilities. One such peculiar trial was the long... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:9-10
The tent and the city. I. OBSERVE THE CONTRAST UNDERLYING THESE VERSES . The tent is in one place in the morning, and may be miles away at night. The city always remains in the same place. Thus there is forcibly indicated an altogether different kind of occupation and interest for the dweller in tents from that for the dweller in cities. As the one class of men increases the other must decrease. The fathers dwell in tents; the children in cities. He who dwells in a tent can... read more