Hebrews 11:1-20, Genesis 25:19-28:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:17

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; by the same excellent faith Abraham alone, and by himself considered, being tried by God, in a rare way, to give proof of the truth of his faith in and love to him above all, was to take his only son, his darling, and to offer him for a whole burnt offering on Mount Moriah, to himself, Genesis 22:2. Which command of God was not unjust, he having absolute sovereignty and dominion over all persons and their lives, having power to kill, and to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:18

This did greaten Abraham’s trial, that unto him it was promised by God himself: That in this only begotten son Isaac, the eminently blessed and blessing Seed, with all his mystical body, should be called; that is, put in being, propagated and made known as by name in Isaac, Galatians 4:28. This God revealed to Abraham, Genesis 17:19,Genesis 17:21, and hereby was his faith put to it to reconcile contradictions, as to believe this special promise, and yet execute this special command to sacrifice... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:19

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead: faith put this into Abraham’s thoughts in his reasonings about this trial between the temptation and God’s power, and influenced him to conclude and determine under it. That since God could raise him from the dead to perform his promises, he would sacrifice him to obey God’s command. This faith grew from what God had done, in giving him Isaac from his own dead body, and Sarah’s dead womb, Romans 4:17-22. God’s almighty power to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:20

Isaac is the next example instanced in of the same Divine faith, described, Hebrews 11:1; only here exercised on the special revelation of God to him concerning his seed. By this faith he did not only wish and pray blessings, but prophetically applied them to his two sons, to Jacob and Israel his seed the covenant blessings, and to Esau and the Edomites his seed the temporary blessings, God designed them, Genesis 27:27,Genesis 27:39. Both these were things to come, and to be communicated to... 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

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:7-12

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 11:7. Righteousness which is by faith.—Which is according to faith. “Faith in this writer never becomes the same as mystic oneness with Christ, but means general belief in the unseen. And ‘righteousness’ is not ‘justification,’ but faith manifested by obedience. Throughout this chapter righteousness is the human condition which faith produces, not the Divine gift which faith receives” (Farrar).MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Hebrews 11:7-12Expressions of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:13-16

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Hebrews 11:13-16Living and Dying in Faith.—This rhetorical chapter, reviewing rapidly the stories of the other saints, could not fail to interest the Jewish Christian readers to whom the epistle was addressed. It illustrates the fact, that the great secret of the mastery of life is faith—trust; and God is ever working to make that trust a really sanctifying power. That indeed is the key to all His dealings with us. Just this is shown in the example of the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:17-20

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 11:19. Received him in a figure.—Lit. “in a parable.” Stuart thinks the reference is to Abraham’s having originally received Isaac as one born of parents who were virtually dead. But the reference is clearly to the scene on Mount Moriah; and it must mean that when, in full purpose, Abraham had laid his son on the altar, he was potentially sacrificed, and Abraham received him again as one brought back from the death to which he had devoted him.MAIN HOMILETICS... 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

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