These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
For they that say such things,.... That they are strangers and pilgrims on earth:
declare plainly that they seek a country; heaven, so called, for the largeness of it; it is a good land, a land of…
Barnes' Notes
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”…
Adam Clarke
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…
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…
Cambridge Bible
in faith Lit. "according to faith."
not having received the promises They received the promises in one sense, aspromises (Heb 11:17), but had not yet entered upon their fruition (comp. Heb 11:39 and…
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