33Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: …
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. …
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 32-40)The apostle having given us a classis of many eminent believers, whose names are mentioned and the particular trials and actings of their faith recorded, now concludes his narrative with a more summary account of another set of believers, where the particular acts are not ascribed to particular persons by name, but left to be applied by those who are well acquainted with the sacred story; and, lik…
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