That the universe was created by God's word. The only knowledge we can have of this event which was not witnessed by human eyes, is through faith! In fact, even our knowledge of human history is only through faith in the testimony of others. So that. Our visible universe is the effect of the invisible God.
Verse Hebrews 11:3. _THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND_] By _worlds_, τους αιωνας, we are to understand the _material fabric of the universe_; for αιων can have no reference here to age or any measurement...
THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED - The first instance of the strength of faith which the apostle refers to is that by which we give credence to the declarations in the Scripture...
IV. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Faith in regard to creation and salvation (Hebrews 11:1)_ 2. The patience of faith (Hebrews 11:8) 3. The energy of faith (Hebrews 11:23
HEBREWS 11:1 F. The chapter opens with a definition of faith as the assurance whereby we lay hold of things still in the future, and the proving_ i.e._ the inward certainty which is stronger than any...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
Faith means that we are certain of the things we hope for, convinced of the thing we do not see. It was because of faith that the men of old time had their record attested. It is by faith that we unde...
WORLDS. ages. Greek. _aion_. App-129. FRAMED. prepared, as Hebrews 10:5. Greek. _katartizo_. App-125. WORD. Greek. _rhema._ See Mark 9:32. GOD. App-98. SO. to (Greek. eis) the end. WERE... MADE. c...
_Through faith_ In this chapter we find fifteen special instances of the work of faith, besides the summary enumeration in the 32nd and following verses. _we understand_ -we apprehend with the reason...
CH. 11. THE HEROES OF FAITH The main task of the writer has now been performed, but the remainder of the Epistle had also a very important purpose. It would have been fatal to the peace of mind of a J...
ΜῊ ἘΚ ΦΑΙΝΟΜΈΝΩΝ. This is the true reading. See the note. 3. ΠΊΣΤΕΙ. In this chapter we find fifteen special instances of the work of faith, besides the summary enumeration in the 32nd and following...
_AN EXPLANATION OF SAVING FAITH -- HEBREWS 11:1-3 :_ The writer described that faith whereby the just man lives in these words, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things...
ΠΊΣΤΕΙ _dat. sing. от_ ΠΊΣΤΙΣ (G4102) вера (_см._ Hebrews 11:1). _Dat._ instr., "верой". Использование этого слова в этой главе служит обозначением перехода к новой теме, ΝΟΟΎΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от...
THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND, &C.— _"By faith we understand that the worlds were adjusted by the word of God,_ and the several revolutions of them directed by the operations of his secret providence; _...
PART THREE _THE NATURE, DEVELOPMENT AND DUTIES OF FAITH. Hebrews 11:1 to Hebrews 13:25_ I. _The nature of faith. Hebrews 11:1-3_ _TEXT_...
THE EXCELLENCY OF FAITH (Hebrews 11:1-3) Ere we take up the contents of the 11th chapter let us briefly review the sound already covered. Chapter s 1 and 2 are more or less introductory in their char...
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. WE UNDERSTAND - we perceive with our spiritual int...
1 Faith is neither "substance" nor "evidence", as is the usual rendering of this passage. The word "substance" is changed to "confidence" in most later translations, as this word seems to agree with i...
HEROES OF FAITH The Achievements of Faith, illustrated from the annals of Israel, beginning with the patriarchs and coming down to the martyrs. The writer has already mentioned faith as a necessary co...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 11 5 THE BETTER WAY 11:1-13:25 THE WAY OF TRUST AND HOPE 11:1-40 THE MEANING OF *FAITH (TRUST IN GOD) 11:1-3 V1 *Faith, that is, trust...
THROUGH FAITH. — Rather, _By faith,_ as in the following verses. The first place is not given to “the elders,” for the writer’s object is to set forth the achievements of _faith._ With these, he would...
CHAPTER X. FAITH AN ASSURANCE AND A PROOF. "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen. For therein the elders had witness borne to them. By faith we understand t...
FAITH'S TRIUMPHS FROM ABEL TO ABRAHAM Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the _sixth_ sense. It makes us as sure of unseen or future things, which we know about only through the divine Word, as we are of things wh...
Then follows a series of illustrations of the power of faith taken from the history of the Hebrew people. The first is that by faith men know that the ages have been fashioned by the Word of God. Afte...
UNDERSTANDING FAITH"Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1 A.S.V.). It appears the King James translators got the full meaning of the word "substanc...
(3) Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are (b) seen were not made of things which do appear. (3) He shows the property of faith, by setti...
The faith so highly commended here is not that _special faith of sectarists, by means of which persons of various and contradictory tenets pretend to assure themselves that their sins in particular ar...
(1) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (2) For by it the elders obtained a good report. (3) Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
3._Through, _or by, _faith we understand, _(205) _etc. _This is a most striking proof of the last verse; for we differ nothing from the brute creation, if we understand not that the world has been cre...
It is not a definition of this principle, that the epistle gives us at the commencement of Chapter 11, but a declaration of its powers and action. Faith realises (gives substance to) that which we hop...
THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED BY THE WORD OF GOD,.... The celestial world, with its inhabitants, the angels; the starry and ethereal worlds, with all that is in them, the sun...
He enters on the confirmation and exemplification of his proposition by instances; first from an _especial object of faith,_ and then proceeds unto the _actings_ of it in them who by virtue of it did...
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Ver. 3. _Through faith we understand_] It is the nat...
HEB. 11:2-3. FOR BY IT THE ELDERS OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT. THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED BY THE WORD OF GOD, SO THAT THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN WERE NOT MADE OF THINGS WHICH DO APP...
_Through faith we understand that the worlds_ Although the expression, τους αιωνας, generally signifies _the ages_, yet here the subsequent clause determines its signification to the material fabric o...
WE UNDERSTAND; through God's testimony. WORLDS; heaven and earth. THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN; the whole visible universe. THINGS WHICH DO APPEAR; things visible to sense. The matter itself of which heave...
THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED BY THE WORD OF GOD, SO THAT THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN WERE NOT MADE OF THINGS WHICH DO APPEAR....
The example of Abel, Enoch, and Noah:...
This chapter in itself forms a complete division of the book of Hebrews. If previously the doctrine has been thoroughly laid down that faith is the principle of all actual relationship with God, now C...
1-3 Faith always has been the mark of God's servants, from the beginning of the world. Where the principle is planted by the regenerating Spirit of God, it will cause the truth to be received, concer...
OLBGrk; This proves the second part of faith's description, HEBREWS 11:1, that it is _the evidence of things not seen; _ for by it only we understand the creation, which no eye saw. It is the same Div...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third and much inferior place they will be laid, and that, too, only when they have been tortured and completed the days of their sins. And on this account will they be tran...
Hebrews 11:3 faith G4102 understand G3539 (G5719) worlds G165 framed G2675 (G5771) word G4487 God G2316 so...
THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH IN THE ANTEDELUVIAN WORLD (HEBREWS 11:3). Faith is seen as giving us an understanding of the world as it is, and why it is as it is. Faith says it is like it is because God cr...
‘ By faith we understand (know in our minds) that the worlds (the ages) have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which appear.' So it is by faith that...
Hebrews 11:3. Here begin the examples of the power and nature and effects of faith. BY FAITH WE KNOW THAT THE WORLDS (the universe) HAVE BEEN FRAMED BY THE WORD OF GOD. ‘The worlds' all that exists in...
BY FAITH (πιστε). Instrumental case of πιστις which he now illustrates in a marvellous way. Each example as far as verse Hebrews 11:31 is formally and with rhetorical skill introduced by πιστε. Aft...
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 minut...
Hebrews 11:1 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...
In this chapter we read of the wonders of faith; but I have never read a chapter setting forth the wonders of unbelief. Unbelief is barren impotent, a mere negation, a dead and accursed thing; but fai...
Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elder obtained a good report._ So it was written, in the olden time, that believers «obta...
This is the Arc de Triomphe erected to the memory of the heroes of faith, whose names are here recorded by the apostle's inspired pen, with a brief mention of some of their most memorable actions. If...
This is the triumphal arch of faith. Here we find the names of many of the heroes of faith, and a brief record of some of the battles in which they fought and conquered. May you and I possess «like pr...
Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report._ The names of those who lived in old time are handed down...
This is a very familiar chapter, but it is none the less precious. It is the roll of the heroes of faith. Here you have a list of the men who believed in God, and who therefore did great things. Hebr...
These men, of whom we are now briefly to read, are a company of God's witnesses; and the apostle calls them, in the next chapter, «a cloud of witnesses,» who, from their lofty seats above, are watchin...
First, a definition of faith. Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand...
CONTENTS: Superiority of the way of faith. Instances of faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Abel, Cain, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sara, Joseph, Moses, Pharaoh's daughter, Rahab, Gideon, Barak,...
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 fa...
_The worlds were framed by the word of God_ SPIRIT IN MATTER: The whole order of the natural world and man’s physical being may be said to be the expression of chemical combination, and of the vario...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:3 God created the UNIVERSE by his WORD. The wording SO THAT WHAT IS SEEN WAS NOT MADE OUT OF THINGS THAT ARE VISIBLE is consistent with the doctrine of creation “
ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAITH AS A PRACTICAL POWER IN LIFE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THIS chapter contains a series of illustrations, taken from the heroic ages of Hebrew history, of the nature and in...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 11:1 NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE _ _OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. On the senses in which the word ὑπόστασις (translated "substance") may be used, see unde...
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 d...
2 Peter 3:5; Acts 14:15; Acts 17:24; Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1;...
Neither does this verse belong to the list of historical instances from Genesis, in which men exercised faith. It is merely the first instance presented in O. T. history of an opportunity for the exer...
FAR-FLUNG VISIONS A New Year's Study Hebrews 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Another New Year has come to us freighted with every possibility of life and service. At such a time as this it is natural for u...
THE PLACE OF FAITH Hebrews 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Unbelief is black with the frown of God; faith is regnant with the smile of God. Unbelief closes every channel of blessing; faith opens up the cha...
THE LIFE OF FAITH Hebrews 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Faith defined. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews opens with something that is very definite it is a definition of faith. "Now faith is the substan...
By faith we understand that the worlds — Heaven and earth and all things in them, visible and invisible. Where made — Formed, fashioned, and finished. By the word — The sole command of God, without an...
The design of the apostle in these words is to prove, that faith satisfies itself in the world be now visible, and the things contained in it are said to be seen, yet the original framing and making o...