Hebrews 11:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Hebrews 11:2 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 11:39
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

Here we have, I. A definition or description of the grace of faith in two parts. 1. It is the substance of things hoped for. Faith and hope go together; and the same things that are the object of our hope are the object of our faith. It is a firm persuasion and expectation that God will perform all that he has promised to us in Christ; and this persuasion is so strong that it gives the soul a kind…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. For--So high a description of faith is not undeserved; for ... [Alford]. by it--Greek, “in it”: in respect to ... in the matter of,” it, “or, as Greek more emphatically, “this.” the elders--as though still living and giving their powerful testimony to the reasonableness and excellence of faith (He 12:1). Not merely the ancients, as though they were people solely of the past; nay, they belong to…