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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:4

‘By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts. And through it he being dead yet speaks.’ The first to reveal his faith was Abel. He was a ‘righteous one’ (Matthew 23:35) who ‘lived by faith’, and because he was righteous he offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain who did not ‘do well’ (Genesis 4:7). Abel offered the firstlings and the fat. He made his many... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:4-7

Hebrews 11:4-Judges : . Examples of faith from the primitive history, as given in the early chapters of Genesis.— Abel, on account of his faith, was not only accepted by God in his lifetime ( Genesis 4:4-Ruth :), but even after his death his blood made its appeal to God for vengeance on his murderer ( Genesis 4:10 *). Enoch passed into the other world without suffering death, and is commemorated in Scripture as the man who “ walked with God” ( Hebrews 11:5). Indeed there can be no religion... read more

Matthew Poole

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

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 11:1-7

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 11:4

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 11:4

DISCOURSE: 2318ABEL’S OFFERING INSTRUCTIVE TO USHebrews 11:4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.IN reading the history of the saints under the Old Testament dispensation, we are constrained to admire their conduct on many occasions, and to regard them as excellent patterns for our imitation. But we should not readily have traced all their... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Hebrews 11:4

righteous Hebrews 11:4; Hebrews 11:7; Romans 10:10 (See Scofield "Romans 10:10- :") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-40

Hebrews, chapter 11:Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ( Hebrews 11:1 ).This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith does. It is the substance of things that are hoped for. And the word substance there has been translated in the new versions the substantiating of the things that we hope for. And the evidence, that word has been translated conviction of the things not seen. I'm convicted of truths, though I may not... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 11:1-40

Hebrews 11:1 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Paul uses here the same Greek word as in Hebrews 1:3, that the Son is the express image of the Father’s hypostasis, or person. Then faith identifies itself with its object. All the ideas embraced by faith subsist in God: they are all realities, as the existence of deity is a reality. Faith is therefore the evidence of things invisible, the strong argument or demonstration. Hebrews 11:2 . By it the elders obtained a good... read more