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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of whom the world was not worthy,.... These words are inserted in a parenthesis, to remove or prevent such objections as these; that they were restless and unquiet persons, that made disturbance in the world, and so unfit to live in it; and that they were deservedly punished for crimes they were guilty of; and to show the great worth and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: It lay in the future to them far more than it does to us, for Christ has now come, and we look hack to that glorious appearing of our Lord and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And these all having obtained a good report through faith,.... This may either be limited to the sufferers in the preceding verses, who were martyred, or suffered martyrdom for the faith, as the words may be rendered; and who are called martyrs or witnesses, in Hebrews 12:1 and so the Ethiopic version renders the clause, "and all these were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: They passed away before Christ’s day, so they did not see the fulfillment of the promises concerning his coming.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
God having provided some better thing for us,.... Not a better state of the church, in such respect, as to be free from suffering reproach and persecutions; for this is the case of saints under the New Testament as under the Old; nor the felicity of the soul after death; nor any greater degree of happiness in the other world; nor the perfection of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Is it not wonderful that we, who bring up the rear of the army of faith, are necessary to its completeness? It cannot be perfect without us. Ay, heaven itself will not be complete without us who are on the road to it. There would be empty seats in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God having provided some better thing for us, that they— Even they, great as they are,— Heb_11:40. Without us should not be made perfect. There is a something for us, whose lot is cast in these latter days, to bring, which shall complete the circle and choir of the Church of Christ, for they without us could not be made perfect. The Lord grant us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. They are waiting up yonder for us; the choirs of heaven cannot be completed without you -and me. Heaven’s full complement, the perfect number of the divine family of love, can never be made up till we who have believed go up yonder to join all those who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. For it never was God’s intention that any part of his church should be able to do without the rest of it, so that those who lived before the time of Christ cannot do without us; neither can we do without them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. The new dispensation is necessary to complete the old, the New Testament is the complement of the Old Testament, and New Testament saints join hands with Old Testament elders. Let us all be worthy of our high pedigree; and may God grant that, if the...