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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. And this holy woman is enrolled among these saintly ones. Her faith was not all it ought to have been; but God saw that it was true faith, and he loved it, and he wrote the record...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. And that was good judgment, was it not? There is no mistake about that. Whatever difficulties may lie in the way, we may always know that he is faithful who hath promised. You are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. These all died in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. These all died in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one,.... That is, Abraham: the Arabic version has here a strange interpolation; "this faith Isaac and Rebecca conceived in mind, and so there were born of one, Esau and Jacob.'' And him as good as dead; being an hundred years of age; [See comments on Romans 4:19]. The Ethiopic version reads, "the bodies of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. This is true, literally, of Abraham’s seed according to the flesh. It is also true in a spiritual sense, for he is “the father of all them that believe”, and they are a multitude whom no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, For he was ordered to be sacrificed. There sprung from one, and him as good as dead. Heb_11:12. So many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. Or if this text means Abraham, then his body was dead; and yet there sprang of him a seed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. “Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead.” That “one” was Isaac, for he was given up to die; and, apparently, nothing could save him from death. Yet God did save him,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These all died in faith, That is the epitaph which God has carved over the resting-place of his faithful ones: “These all died in faith.” Will this be the record concerning all of us, “These all died in faith”? Heb_11:13. Not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, What long arms faith has! The promises are afar off, and yet faith embraces them tonight. Embrace the promises, dear friends, and stretch out your hands by faith to hands that have gone before. “E’en now by faith...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, By which is meant, not that they did not receive the promises, but they did not receive the things promised.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. They have not come to it yet; nor will they as long as they are here below. They are still seeking a country.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. “These all”— Paul means Abraham, and Sarah, and Isaac, and Jacob,” died in faith.” They “embraced” the promises,— threw their arms round them,—...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 uprightness; a pleasant land, a land of rest, though a land afar off; here the Father of Christ, and Christ himself, and all his people dwell: the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. True pilgrims never think of going back; they know that, whatever difficulties and trials lie ahead of them, there are far greater ones in “that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. They were strangers and pilgrims here, and they sought a country elsewhere. Every man wants a country; and if we have not one beneath the stars, we seek it somewhere else.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. If they were seeking a country, might they not have gone back to their own country, from whence they came out? No; true believers know nothing about...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 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, faith has no thought of going back; her face is set like a flint to go towards the heavenly city, forsaking every earthly joy for the sake...