Hebrews 11:13 NIV

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 11:13

These all died in faith ,.... Not all the seed of Abraham, but all the believers in the preceding verses, excepting Enoch, particularly the three patriarchs, with Sarah; these died a corporeal death, which is common to all, to the righteous, and to the wicked; and yet saints die not as other men; they die in faith, having the grace itself, which being once implanted, can never be lost; and sometimes in the exercise of it, as these believers did: they died in the faith of their posterity... read more

Adam Clarke

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:13

Verse 13 13.These all died in faith, etc. He enhances by a comparison the faith of the patriarchs: for when they had only tasted of the promises, as though fully satisfied with their sweetness, they despised all that was in the world; and they never forgot the taste of them, however small it was either in life or in death. (222) At the same time the expression in faith, is differently explained. Some understand simply this that they died in faith, because in this life they never enjoyed the... 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

These all ( i.e. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the nomadic patriarchs, not in-eluding the antediluvian heroes, to whom what is further said does not apply) died in faith (literally, according to faith, κατὰ πίστιν , as in Hebrews 11:7 ), not having received the promises, but having seen and greeted them from afar off (omitting the ill-supported καὶ πεισθέντες of the Textus Receptus) , and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. The reference is to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:13-14

The Christian's condition in this world. "These all died in faith, not having received the promises," etc. By "these all" we understand Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Jacob. They died in faith. Their faith, though at times it was sorely tried, continued unto death. And their death was according to or consistent with their faith. They departed this life still believing in the promises, and anticipating their fulfillment in the life beyond. We take what is said of the patriarchs in these two... 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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith - That is, those who had been just mentioned - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Sarah. It was true of Abel and Noah also that they died in faith, but they are not included in “this” declaration, for the “promises” were not particularly entrusted to them, and if the word “these” be made to include them it must include Enoch also, who did not die at all. The phrase used here, “these all died in faith,” does not mean that they died in the exercise or possession of religion, but... 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 11:13

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:8-19

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:13-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:13-16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 11:13

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