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The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 11:4

Hebrews 11:4By faith Abel offeredExternal worship rendered by two kinds of menI.CARNAL MEN MAY JOIN WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN EXTERNAL DUTIES OF WORSHIP. 1. Natural conscience will put men upon worship. 2. Custom will direct to the worship then in use and fashion. 3. Carnal impulses will add force and vigour to the performances. (1) Vainglory. (2) Secular aims and advantages. Use 1. It serves to inform us that the bare performance of the duties of religion is no gracious evidence. Cain may... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 11:4

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. Ver. 4. A more excellent sacrifice ] Good actions and good aims make a man good in the sight of God. Cain may offer as well as Abel. Doeg may set his foot as far within the sanctuary as David, the Pharisee as the publican, but with different success. God testifying of his gifts ] By fire from heaven, or... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 11:4

faith: Genesis 4:3-Deuteronomy :, Genesis 4:15, Genesis 4:25, 1 John 3:11, 1 John 3:12 a more: Hebrews 9:22, Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 21:27, Titus 1:16, Jude 1:11 he obtained: Leviticus 9:24, 1 Kings 18:38, Matthew 23:35, Luke 11:51 and by: Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:24, Genesis 4:10, Matthew 23:35 yet speaketh: or, is yet spoken of Reciprocal: Genesis 4:4 - had Genesis 4:5 - But Genesis 4:7 - be accepted Judges 7:20 - brake Job 8:10 - Shall not Psalms 19:14 - Let Song of Solomon 1:8 - go... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 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.By faith — In the future Redeemer.Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice — The firstlings of his flock, implying both a confession of what his own sins deserved, and a desire of sharing in the great atonement.Than Cain — Whose offering testified no such faith, but a bare acknowledgment of God the Creator. By... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:4

4. Abel Passing in significant silence the first of the human race, Adam, and the first born of the race, Cain, our author finds in the second born, Abel, the first decisive instance of heroic faith. More excellent sacrifice Literally, a more sacrifice; it was more truly an actual offering than Cain’s, because offered in faith. By which, may by its gender be referred to faith or to sacrifice. Lunemann and Alford refer it to the former; but by faith… by which makes a very awkward... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 11:4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 11:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 11:4

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 11:4

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:4

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