希伯來書 11:15 RCUVTS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 11:4-31

The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old-Testament times, and these may be divided into two classes:?1. Those whose names are mentioned, and the particular exercise and actings of whose faith are specified. 2. Those whose names are barely mentioned, and an account given in general of the exploits of their faith, which it is left to the reader to accommodate, and apply to the particular... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 11:13-16

11:13-16 All these died without obtaining possession of the promises. They only saw them from far away and greeted them from afar, and they admitted that they were strangers and sojourners upon the earth. Now people who speak like that make it quite clear that they are searching for a fatherland. If they were thinking of the land from which they had come out, they would have had time to return. In point of fact they were reaching out after something better, I mean, the heavenly country. It... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:15

And truly if they had been mindful of that country ,.... Chaldea, which was Abraham's country: from whence they came out ; as Abraham and Sarah did, in person, and their posterity in them: they might have had opportunity to have returned : for the way from Canaan or Egypt, where they sojourned, was short and easy: and though Abraham sent his servant thither to take a wife for his son Isaac, yet he would not go thither himself, nor suffer his son; nay, made his servant swear that he... 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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:15

Verse 15 15.And truly if they had been mindful, etc. He anticipates an objection that might have been made, — that they were strangers because they had left their own country. The apostle meets this objection, and says, that though they called themselves strangers, they yet did not think of Mesopotamia; for if they had a desire to return, they might have done so: but they had willingly banished themselves from it, nay, they had disowned it, as though it did not belong to them. By another... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:8-19

Faith of the Hebrew Pilgrim Fathers. What Anglo-Saxon could look without emotion on the granite boulder at New Plymouth—"the corner-stone of a nation"—upon which the Pilgrim Fathers of New England stepped ashore from the Mayflower? And, in like manner, what Jew can think but with enthusiasm of those three glorious names—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? The verses before us were well fitted to stir the hearts' blood of the Hebrews to whom this treatise was addressed. And they should stir ours... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:13-16

The two fatherlands. I. THAT FROM WHICH THEY HAD COME . The writer of this Epistle has been a student of the recorded experiences and habitual feelings of his devout ancestors. Many of the descendants of Abraham had no devoutness in them. They cared nothing where they lived so long as they could get gain and their fill of the pleasures of life. Such were really not reckoned in the exceeding multitude at all. They that are of faith are the children of faithful Abraham. And few... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:14-16

For they that say such things declare plainly (or, make manifest ) that they seek a country ( i.e. a native country, a fatherland, πατρίδα ). And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now ( i.e. as it is) they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God (see refs. under Hebrews 11:9 ): for he hath prepared for them a city. In... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:15-16

The Christian's attitude in this world. "And truly if they had been mindful of that country," etc. These words, telling us how the patriarchs regarded the country which they had left and the country for which they looked, suggest to us that the Christian's attitude in this world is that of— I. RESOLUTE RENUNCIATION OF THE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND . And truly if the patriarchs "had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 11:15

And truly if they had been mindful of that country ... - If they had remembered it with sufficient interest and affection to have made them desirous to return.They might have had opportunity to have returned - The journey was not so long or perilous that they could not have retraced their steps. It would have been no more difficult or dangerous for them to do that than it was to make the journey at first. This shows that their remaining as strangers and sojourners in the land of Canaan was... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 11:4-31

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 11:13-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:15

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:8-19

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:13-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:14-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:15-16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 11:15

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