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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith - That is, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Jacob, continued to believe, to the end of their lives, that God would fulfill this promise; but they neither saw the numerous seed, nor did they get the promised rest in Canaan. Strangers and pilgrims - Strangers, ξενοι , persons who are out of their own country, who are in a foreign land: pilgrims, παρεπιδημοι , sojourners only for a time; not intending to take up their abode in that place, nor to get naturalized in that... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:14

Declare plainly that they seek a country - A man's country is that in which he has constitutional rights and privileges; no stranger or sojourner has any such rights in the country where he sojourns. These, by declaring that they felt themselves strangers and sojourners, professed their faith in a heavenly country and state, and looked beyond the grave for a place of happiness. No intelligent Jew could suppose that Canaan was all the rest which God had promised to his people. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:15

If they had been mindful of that country - They considered their right to the promises of God as dependent on their utter renunciation of Chaldea; and it was this that induced Abraham to cause his steward Eliezer to swear that he would not carry his son Isaac to Chaldea; see Genesis 24:5-8 . There idolatry reigned; and God had called them to be the patriarchs and progenitors of a people among whom the knowledge of the true God, and the worship required by him, should be established and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:16

But now they desire a better - They all expected spiritual blessings, and a heavenly inheritance; they sought God as their portion, and in such a way and on such principles that he is not ashamed to be called their God; and he shows his affection for them by preparing for them a city, to wit, heaven, as themselves would seek no city on earth; which is certainly what the apostle has here in view. And from this it is evident that the patriarchs had a proper notion of the immortality of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:17

Abraham, when he was tried - See the history of this whole transaction explained at large in the notes on Genesis 22:1-9 . Offered up his only-begotten - Abraham did, in effect, offer up Isaac; he built an altar, bound his son, laid him upon the altar, had ready the incense, took the knife, and would immediately have slain him had he not been prevented by the same authority by which the sacrifice was enjoined. Isaac is here called his only-begotten, as be was the only son he had by his... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:8

Verse 8 8.By faith Abraham, etc. He comes now to Abraham, who is the chief father of God’s church on earth, and in whose name the Jews gloried, as though by the distinction of being the holy race of Abraham alone, they were removed from the common order of men. But he now reminds them of what they ought to possess as the main thing, that they might be counted among his children. He therefore calls their attention to faith, for Abraham himself had no excellency which did not proceed from faith. ... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:9

Verse 9 9.By faith he sojourned, etc. The second particular is, that having entered into the land, he was hardly received as a stranger and a sojourner. Where was the inheritance which he had expected? It might have indeed occurred instantly to his mind, that he had been deceived by God. Still greater was the disappointment, which the Apostle does not mention, when shortly after a famine drove him from the country, when he was compelled to flee to the land of Gerar; but the Apostle considered... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:10

Verse 10 10.For he looked for, etc. He gives a reason why he ascribes their patience to faith, even because they looked forward to heaven. This was indeed to see things invisible. It was no doubt a great thing to cherish in their hearts the assurance given them by God respecting the possession of the land until it was after some ages realized; yet as they did not confine their thoughts, no, not to that land, but penetrated even into heaven, it was still a clearer evidence of their faith. He... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:11

Verse 11 11.Through faith also, Sarah herself, etc. That women may know that this truth belongs to them as well as to men, he adduces the example of Sarah; which he mentions in preference to that of others, because she was the mother of all the faithful. But it may seem strange that her faith is commended, who was openly charged with unbelief; for she laughed at the word of the angel as though it were a fable; and it was not the laugh of wonder and admiration, for otherwise she would not have... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:12

Verse 12 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, who had been barren in the flower of her age, was now sterile, being far advanced in years. Sooner then might oil be expected to flow from a stone, than a nation to proceed from them: and yet there sprang from them an innumerable multitude. If now the Jews are proud of their origin, let them... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:12

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