2For by it the elders obtained a good report.
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And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
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.
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 kin…
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