Blessed both the sons; Genesis 48:5-20.
Upon the top of his staff; Genesis 47:31; the quotation is from the Greek version of the Seventy. The same Hebrew letters, according as they are differently pronounced, may signify bed or staff. Taken either way, the sense of the passage is substantially the same. Faith lives and worships God in death.
Verse 21. _BLESSED BOTH THE SONS OF JOSEPH_] That is, Ephraim and Manasseh. See the account and the notes. Genesis 48:5, c. _WORSHIPPED_, LEANING _UPON THE TOP OF HIS STAFF_] This subject is particu...
BY FAITH JACOB, WHEN HE WAS A DYING - Genesis 47:31; Genesis 48:1. That is, when he was about to die. He saw his death near when he pronounced this blessing on Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph...
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
Passing now from the men of the primeval world, the writer comes to the patriarchs, and especially to Abraham, who stands out in the OT as the chief example of faith. Abraham showed his faith by his o...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in the things concerning the future. It was by faith that Jacob, when he was dying. blessed each of the sons of Joseph and prayed leaning, on the head...
JACOB. Jacob's faith was manifested by his blessing each of Joseph's sons, putting Ephraim first according to God's will. See Genesis 48:5, BOTH. each of. SONS. Greek. _huios._ App-108. WORSHIPPED....
_both the sons_ Rather, "each of the sons." He made a marked difference between them (Genesis 48:17-19). _worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff_ In this verse there is an allusion to two separ...
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...
ἝΚΑΣΤΟΝ ΤΩ͂Ν ΥἹΩ͂Ν. “_Each of the sons_.” He made a marked difference between them (Genesis 48:17-19). ΠΡΟΣΕΚΎΝΗΣΕΝ ἘΠῚ ΤῸ ἌΚΡΟΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. In this verse there is an allusion to two separate events. The f...
_SOME WHO LIVED BY FAITH -- HEBREWS 11:4-31:_ The writer of Hebrews has now set forth what faith is and how faith works. He proceeds to list a "Hall of fame" of Old Testament characters who lived 'by...
ΑΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩΝ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΑΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать. _Praes._ означает, что он умирал, когда говорил: "умирая" "на смертном одре" ΈΚΑΣΤΟΣ (G1538) каждый, ΕΎΛΌΓΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_...
BY FAITH JACOB, WHEN HE WAS A DYING, &C.— He blessed each of them particularly. Moses tells us, that he strengthened himself and sat upon the bed on that occasion, Genesis 47:31; Genesis 48:2. When Ja...
B. _The patriarchal: faith in God plus faith in His promises. Hebrews 11:8-27_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 11:8-27 Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place
THE FAITH OF JACOB (Hebrews 11:21) It has been well said that "Though the grace of faith is of universal use throughout our whole lives, yet it is especially so when we come to die. Faith has its gre...
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. BOTH THE SONS - Greek, 'each of the sons' (; ; ). He could not distinguish J...
17 That all this is in resurrection is further enforced by the offering of Isaac. Abraham had such confidence in God, that he was ready to slay his son, believing that God would rouse him from the dea...
11:21 staff. (a-20) This follows the LXX translation of Genesis 47:31 ....
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...
TOP OF HIS STAFF] The Heb. in Genesis 47:31 reads, 'the head of his bed.' The difference is due to the same consonants being read with different vowels, _mittah_ being 'bed,' and _matteh_ being 'staff...
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...
BOTH THE SONS. — Rather, _each of the sons._ The separate character of the two blessings is thus brought out (Genesis 48:14). (See the last Note.) In the case of the two events mentioned in this verse...
CHAPTER XIII. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES. "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a-dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, le...
SEEKING THE BETTER COUNTRY Hebrews 11:11 Faith has the twofold power, first, of making the unseen real; and second, of receiving the grace and strength of God into the heart. Sarah, through faith, r...
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...
THE FAITH OF THE FATHERS God asked Abraham to take that son of promise, Isaac, and offer him up as a sacrifice (Hebrews 11:17; Genesis 22:1-14), thus causing his faith to be tested to its fullest. Yet...
(9) By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff. (9) Jacob....
Jacob....worshipping the top [8] of Joseph's rod, or staff of command, or of his sceptre. See Genesis xlvii. Jacob, by bowing to Joseph and his sceptre, acknowledged and reverenced the power of Joseph...
(20) By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. (21) By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. (22)...
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...
21._By faith Jacob, etc. _It was the Apostle’s object to attribute to faith whatever was worthy of remembrance in the history of the people: as, however, it would have been tedious to recount everythi...
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...
BY FAITH JACOB, WHEN HE WAS A DYING,.... Which was the usual time of blessing with the patriarchs; and the reason of it was, that what was said might be more attended to and regarded, and more strongl...
Πίστει ᾿Ιακὼβ ἀποθνήσκων ἓκαστον τῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ιωσὴφ ἐυλόγνσε, καὶ προσεκύνησεν ἐπὶ τὸ ἄχρον τῆς ῥάβδου αὐτοῦ. ᾿Αποθνήσκων, “moriens,” “moriturus,” “cum moreretur;” “when he drew nigh to death,” the pres...
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, _leaning_ upon the top of his staff. Ver. 21. _When he was a dying_] The Spirit's motions are then many times qui...
Heb. 11:18-22. Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God (was) able to raise (him) up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. By faith...
_By faith_ By firmly believing what God had revealed unto him concerning the future state of his children; _Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau_ Prophetically foretold the particular blessings they should re...
BY FAITH JACOB, WHEN HE WAS A-DYING, BLESSED BOTH THE SONS OF JOSEPH, AND WORSHIPED, LEANING UPON THE TOP OF HIS STAFF....
The example of the patriarchs:...
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...
20-31 Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning things to come. Things present are not the best things; no man knoweth love or hatred by having them or wanting them. Jacob lived by faith, and he died...
BY FAITH JACOB, WHEN HE WAS A DYING, BLESSED BOTH THE SONS OF JOSEPH: Jacob did not degenerate from his progenitors, but by the same excellent faith (being heir to the birthright and blessing, by God'...
Hebrews 11:21 faith G4102 Jacob G2384 dying G599 (G5723) blessed G2127 (G5656) each G1538 sons G5207 Joseph...
‘By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped on the top of his staff.' In the same way did Jacob in his old age, when he was no longer able to physically supp...
FAITH REVEALED BY THOSE WHOSE EYES WERE ON THE CERTAINTY OF THE FUTURE FULFILMENT OF THE PROMISES OF GOD WITH THEIR EYES ON THINGS TO COME (HEBREWS 11:17)....
Hebrews 11:8-22. From the elders of the antediluvian world the writer now appeals to the elders of Israel, the great men who, under God, founded the Jewish state. Theirs also was a condition of patien...
Hebrews 11:21. BY FAITH JACOB, WHEN DYING, BLESSED EACH OF THE SONS OF JOSEPH. The dying acts of the two patriarchs are connected together as worshippers (Genesis 47:31). HE WORSHIPPED ON THE TOP OF...
LEANING UPON THE TOP OF HIS STAFF (επ το ακρον της ραβδου αυτου). From Genesis 47:31, but no word for "leaning." The quotation is from the LXX, the Hebrew having "the head of the bed," but the Hebr...
Hebrews 11:21 The Story of a Pilgrim's Staff. I. The pilgrim's staff represented something. He leaned on it, not because it was needed, but because it helped him to realise. It was the type of those...
Hebrews 11:8 The Patriarchs. I. The period of the patriarchs has a very peaceful and lovely character. God appeared and spoke to them. There was as yet no law. What is the real peculiarity of the pat...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THAT MADE JACOB BLESS. Again we see the inspiration of God, as Jacob included Joseph's two sons as heads of tribes. HE LEANED. That sick old man raised from his bed and stood, leaning on the top of hi...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:21 JACOB. See Genesis 48:8. Similar to Isaac, Jacob’s future hope was based on God’s promises (see...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 11:21. LEANING UPON THE TOP OF HIS STAFF.—Probably meaning “upon the head of the bed”; only this assumes more of a bedstead than was usual among tribal Eastern...
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...
Genesis 47:31; Genesis 48:5...
When he died [α π ο θ ν η σ κ ω ν]. Rend. "when dying." It is quite superfluous to explain this as emphasizing the strength in contrast with the weakness of approaching death; or that, in the birth of...
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...
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...
Jacob when dying — That is, when near death. Bowing down on the top of his staff — As he sat on the side of his bed. Genesis 48:16; Genesis 47:31...
(CF. GENESIS 47:31)— Is there a discrepancy regarding the death of Jacob? PROBLEM: Hebrews mentions that Jacob died worshiping, “leaning on the top of his staff” (11:21). Yet Genesis 47:31 mentions J...
Observe here, in dying Jacob, the frame and carriage of holy men in their dying and seasons, to bless their children, and worship their God. Jacob blessed Joseph and his two sons, laying hold on the c...