 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 634 sider
...Apostle to the Hebrews, concerning the Patriarchs, and other good men before Christ's incarnation ; ' And these all having obtained a good report through faith,...received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be perfect.' Hither also they referred that of the Psalmist,... | |
 | William Mathers - 1831 - 214 sider
...wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. — 89. 40. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,...received not the promise. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 8. And the four beasts (living creatures)... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1831 - 458 sider
...were necessary, all that has been said is crowned by the concluding sentence of the apostle — " And these all having obtained a good report, through faith,...received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should Bot be made perfect ;" which " better thing,'' whether it... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 sider
...after the judgment. t St. Paul asserts that the saints of old, " all having received a good report by faith, received not the promise ; God having provided...things for us, that they without us should not be made perfect "\ or enter into the full completion of their happiness, until we have joined them at... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1832 - 322 sider
...context must determine 'which of the two is to be preferred. When the apostle says, chap. xi. 39, 40, " These all, having obtained a good report through faith,...not the promise ; God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect ;" he speaks of the dispensation of higher... | |
 | Edward Burton - 1832 - 480 sider
...and all of' them ', he adds, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promises ; God having provided some better things for us, that they without us should not be made perfect 2. He then makes use of this eloud of witnesses 3, or martyrs, as an incitement to the... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 sider
...had made the preparation. Again, the apostle tells us, that "the fathers received not the promises, hen he laid down his life? Oh, consider him living or dying, and say, " Never lov made perfect," Heb. 11:40. Whence some infer that their condition after death was a state of imperfection;... | |
 | 1832 - 570 sider
..."had already attained or were already perfect." It may not be presumption to believe that "God has provided some better things for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." Still, in regard to the doctrines which they held to be "the truth as it is in Jesus,"... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1833 - 446 sider
...will finally partake. ' These,' says he, (the saints of old,) ' all having obtained n good report by faith, received not the promise; God having provided...things for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.' " Several of the best commentators refer this to their "final glory in the heavenly... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - 1833 - 444 sider
...will finally partake. ' These,' says he, (the saints of old,) ' all having obtained a good report by faith, received not the promise; God having provided...things for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.' " Several of the best commentators refer this to their "final glory in the heavenly... | |
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And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise : GOD having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 
