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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:4

The Spirit beginneth here to illustrate his description of faith, by induction of instances throughout the former ages of the church to the time of these Hebrews; and he begins with believers in the old world before the flood. Faith is the same Divine grace as described before, only here to be considered as fully receiving of God’s will in Christ as to sacrificing work, and remitting such affections and operations to God in it as were agreeable thereunto. By faith Abel offered unto God a more... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death: by the Divine faith before described, that which reacheth home to God by Christ, Enoch, the seventh patriarch in a descent from Adam of the church’s line, Genesis 5:21, all eminent prophet and Boanerges, denouncing judgment against the ungodly ones of his time, so as to awaken them to repentance, Jude 1:14,Jude 1:15, was taken by God, Genesis 5:24. The apostle keeps to the Septuagint translation of the text. He was miraculously changed... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:6

The Spirit here proveth that Enoch pleased God by faith, though it was not expressly written in his text by Moses, because of the impossibility of pleasing God without faith. But without faith it is impossible to please him; but without faith upon God in Christ, whom Enoch pleased, it is absolutely impossible to do any thing acceptable to God, so as to be justified by him; for infidelity, or want of faith, makes God a liar, 1 John 5:10, Christ a vanity, John 5:40, and God’s will a deceit, which... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-3

ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAITH AS A PRACTICAL POWER IN LIFECRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESTHIS chapter contains a series of illustrations, taken from the heroic ages of Hebrew history, of the nature and influence of faith in God. The writer desires to show that faith makes a motive and inspiration for daily life and conduct as sufficient and as satisfactory as distant announcements and demonstrative proofs. In impressing the temporary character of the Mosaic religious system, the writer is careful to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:4-6

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 11:4. More excellent.—Because Abel made it the offering of himself. It is the offering of the man himself, through his sacrifice, that God accepts. Dead yet speaketh.—Philo says, “Abel—which is most strange—has both been slain and lives.”Hebrews 11:6. Believe that he is.—The two absolutely fundamental truths of universal religion are: (1) God exists; (2) God is moral Governor of the universe, and as such rewards the pious, and punishes the ungodly.MAIN... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1

Hebrews 11:1 The Work of the Few and the Many. The history of mankind, whether secular or religious, resolves itself into the history of a few individuals. It is not that all the rest do not live their own lives, or can shirk their own eternal responsibilities; but it is that the march and movement of the many is as surely influenced by the genius of the few as is the swing of the tide by the law of gravitation. It is a law of our being that we should belong the vast majority of us to the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-7

Hebrews 11:1-7 Abel, Enoch, Noah. Before the flood and the Abrahamic covenant God had a people on earth who lived by faith. Abel, the first martyr, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, and Noah, the preacher of righteousness, are the three witnesses of the period whose lives are recorded. I. Abel, the first man who had to descend into the grave, was carried through it on the arms of redeeming love. Abel, believing the word, approached God through the bitter sacrifice. Every one who believes in Jesus... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:3

Hebrews 11:3 Faith in God the Creator. I. Reason cannot ascend from nature to nature's God. The most comprehensive observation of things seen, and of which we can take cognisance, and the most minute analysis of things with the most remote and simple elements, leave the question of creation or the origin of things perfectly untouched and unapproached. The step from matter to mind, from things which appear to that which is the cause, spring, origin of all, is one which reason cannot take. God... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:4

Hebrews 11:4 Faith as Acting on Worship. I. All faith implies an effort, a motion of the will towards God. It maintains not existence merely, but living energy; it is not otiose, but active; it even asks, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? " Think of this as regards worship. To be real it must be a business in which we take an active part a homage to a Presence which we feel. If there are any to whom the Lord's day, with its special duty, or each day's ordinary duty of prayer and praise, is... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 11:1

DISCOURSE: 2317THE NATURE OF FAITHHebrews 11:1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.CONSIDERING how much the Scriptures speak of faith, one is surprised that the subject of faith so little occupies the attention of the world at large, or even of the religious world. But the truth is, that the nature of faith is but little known. The world at large consider it as no more than assent upon evidence; whilst the religious world confine their views of it... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:6

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-3

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:4-6

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-7

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:3

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:4

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 11:1

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