Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Hebrews 11:36
The language becomes more general, but still chiefly refers to the same troublous times.
Yea, moreover of bonds. — Lasting and cruel captivity, a worse fate even than “mockings and scourgings.”
The language becomes more general, but still chiefly refers to the same troublous times.
Yea, moreover of bonds. — Lasting and cruel captivity, a worse fate even than “mockings and scourgings.”
Verse 36. _HAD TRIAL OF_ CRUEL _MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS_] We do not know the cases to which the apostle refers. The _mockings_ here can never mean such as those of Ishmael against Isaac, or the youth...
AND OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF CRUEL MOCKINGS - Referring to the scorn and derision which the ancient victims of persecution experienced. This has been often experienced by martyrs, and doubtless it was the...
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
The rest of the history would take too long to survey in detail, and the writer contents himself with suggesting it by a few striking allusions. He mentions certain outstanding names, then refers in g...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
Women received back their own folk as if they had been raised from the dead. Others were crucified because they refused to accept release, for they were eager to obtain a better resurrection. Others w...
OTHERS. Greek. _heteros._ App-124. TRIAL. See Hebrews 11:29. MOCKINGS. Greek. _empaigmos._ Only here. IMPRISONMENT. prison. See Genesis 39:20 (Joseph). 1 Kings 22:26;...
_mockings and scourgings_ "Seven brethren and their mother … being tormented with scourges and whips … and they brought the second for a mocking-stock … And after him was the third made a mocking-stoc...
ἘΜΠΑΙΓΜΩ͂Ν ΚΑῚ ΜΑΣΤΊΓΩΝ. “Seven brethren and their mother … being tormented with scourges and whips … and they brought the second for a mocking-stock … And after him was the third made a mocking-stock...
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...
_MANY SUFFERED FOR THE FAITH -- HEBREWS 11:32-38:_ Many names were only mentioned. There was_ _ Gedeon, Barak, Samson, Jephthae, David, Samuel, and the prophet. These are great servants of God "Who th...
ΈΤΕΡΟΣ (G2087) другой, ΈΜΠΑΙΓΜΌΣ (G1701) издевательство, насмешка над человеком, саркастическое передразнивание, ΜΑΣΤΙΓΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΜΆΣΤΙΞ (G3148) избиение, побои с помощью кнута, ΠΕΊΡΑΝ ΈΛΑΒΟΝ...
TRIAL OF CRUEL MOCKINGS— There can be no doubt but that these mockings were _cruel;_ but there was no occasion to add this word to the text, as it is not in the original. See 2 Kings 2:23. Genesis 21:...
C. _Israelitish nation: faith in God's promises of the coming Messiah. Hebrews 11:28-40_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 11:28-40 Hebrews 11:28 By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkl
THE PINNACLE OF FAITH (Hebrews 11:35, Hebrews 11:36) In His lengthy but most blessed description of the Life of Faith the Spirit of God has, in Hebrews 11, passed from one phase of it to another, exh...
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: OTHERS - of a different class: confessors for the truth [ heteroi (G2087); but in Hebrews 11:35, allo...
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...
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...
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...
ἕτεροι δέ … introducing a different class of victories achieved by faith, although ἐμπαιγμῶν καὶ μαστίγων, “mockings and scourgings” were endured by the martyrs who have just been mentioned (2Ma 7:7;...
Summary of the achievements of faith in the times subsequent to Joshua....
“THE NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS” Hebrews 11:32 Strong faith is consistent with very different views of religious truth. The conception that Abel, Enoch or Noah had of so-called Christian truth was very s...
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...
THOSE WHO OVERCAME BY FAITH It is by faith that the walls of Jericho fell (Joshua 6:1-21). Only faith that obedience of Jehovah and his servant would work could have destroyed such a city in such a wa...
(32) And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: (33) Who through faith subdu...
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...
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...
AND OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF CRUEL MOCKINGS,.... As Samson by the Philistines; Elisha by the children, whom the bears devoured; Jeremiah by Pashur, and others; the Jews by Sanballat and Tobiah, when buildi...
He proceeds in the next place unto instances quite of another nature, and which were more immediately suited unto the condition of the Hebrews. For hearing of these great and glorious things, they mig...
And others had trial of _cruel_ mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: Ver. 36. _Of cruel mockings_] As Jeremiah, Amos, Elisha, "Go up, bald head, go up," so. "To heaven, a...
HEB. 11:36. AND OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF (CRUEL) MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS, YEA, MOREOVER OF BONDS AND IMPRISONMENT: These episodes also are incorporated into _The History of Redemption :_ But the most won...
_Women_, naturally weak, _received their dead_ children _raised to life again_ Compare 1 Kings 17:22; 2 Kings 4:36; _and others_ Particularly seven children and one pious and holy mother; _were tortur...
No victories ever won compare with those of faith. Its triumphs no earthly tongue can speak or pen describe. They are written in the book of life, and will be told with immortal tongues, by multitudes...
AND OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF CRUEL MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS, YEA, MOREOVER OF BONDS AND IMPRISONMENT;...
The achievements of faith in the times of Joshua and later:...
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...
32-38 After all our searches into the Scriptures, there is more to be learned from them. We should be pleased to think, how great the number of believers was under the Old Testament, and how strong t...
AND OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF CRUEL MOCKINGS; the same gospel faith enabled others than those mentioned before, prophets and saints, as Micaiah, 1 KINGS 22:24, Elisha, 2 Kings 2:23 Isaiah 8:18...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV Wherefore also, having encompassing us such a cloud," holy and transparent, "of witnesses, laying aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,...
Hebrews 11:36 Still G1161 others G2087 had G2983 (G5627) trial G3984 mockings G1701 and G2532 scourgings G3148 ye
‘And others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tested, they were slain with the sword, they went about i...
Hebrews 11:36. OTHERS HAD TRIAL (experience) OF CRUEL MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS. The allusion again is to the Maccabees (2Ma 7:7-10). YEA, MOREOVER (a harder thing, because of the continuance and depr...
Hebrews 11:35-38. What faith has done we have seen; what it helps men to suffer is now told us. WOMEN RECEIVED (back) THEIR DEAD RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN (literally, by a resurrection, which is regarded a...
OF MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS (εμπαιγμων κα μαστιγων). Εμπαιγμος is from εμπαιζω (Matthew 20:19), late word, in LXX, here alone in N.T. Μαστιγων (μαστιξ, a whip, a scourge) is old and common enough (A...
Hebrews 11:30 We may make use of extraordinary examples to encourage our ordinary faith at ordinary times. These models are on a very grand and large scale, and so we can plainly see them. I. Faith w...
Hebrews 11:32. _And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:_ There are some...
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...
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...
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...
SOME. This was true of many persecutions recorded in Jewish history. Compare Jeremiah 20:7-18....
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:36 MOCKING... IMPRISONMENT. Much like some of the first readers of Hebrews 1:1 endured ...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 11:37. SAWN ASUNDER.—The traditional mode of Isaiah’s death. TEMPTED.—_I.e._ severely tested. A conjecture has been made that the word should be ἐπρήσθησαν, the...
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...
1 Kings 22:24; 1 Kings 22:27; 2 Chronicles 16:10; 2 Chronicles 30:10;...
And others — The apostle seems here to pass on to recent examples....
Our apostle having in the foregoing verses acquainted the Hebrews with the great things which faith enabled the Old Testament saints to do, he now lays before them an account of the hard and difficult...