39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
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And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: …
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
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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