Hebrews 11:7

warned of God The same word is used as in Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 12:25.

moved with fear Influenced by godly caution and reverence; the same kind of fear as that implied in Hebrews 5:7.

condemned the world His example was in condemning contrast with the unbelief of the world (Matthew 12:41; Luke 11:31).

of the righteousness which is by faith Rather, "which is according to faith" (comp. Ezekiel 14:14). Noah is called "righteous" in Genesis 6:9, and Philo observes that he is the first to receive this title, and erroneously says that the name Noah means "righteous" as well as "rest." St Paul does not use the phrase "the righteousness according to faith," though he has "the righteousness of faith" (Romans 4:13). "Faith" however 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 (Hebrews 11:33), not the divine gift which faith receives. Hence he says that Noah "became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith," i.e. he entered on the inheritance of righteousness which faith had brought him. In 2 Peter 2:5 Noah is called "a preacher of righteousness;" and in Wis 10:4 "the righteous man."