...seen them afar off. These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise : God having provided some better thing for Us, that they without us should not be made perfect. h ACTS, ii. 4 : They were all filled with the Holy Ghost. 2 COR. i. 22 : Who hath alao...

...Is it asked how Paul and others were come to them ? I answerj that this is explained, chap. 11: 40, "God having provided some better thing for us, that...without us should not be made perfect." They were come to the better thing provided, without whjch- those persons were not perfected. 1 Peter 3: 18,...

...risen with healing under his wings : and Christians are all the children of the light and of the day ; God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Hence our Saviour said to his disciples — not comparing them with the Gentiles, but...

...these ull, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise : God having prodded some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. This passage occasions considerable perplexity in the minds of common readers. The learned...

...accomplishment. " And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise : GOD having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect:" and still they looked forward to the glory to be revealed, as they anticipated the coming...

...reality ; they had the promise, we have the accomplishment ; they had the dawn, we have the day — God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. If we look back to the period previous to the entrance of the Gospel into our own country...

...all, having obtained a good 39 report through faith, received not the promise : God having provided 40 some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perand lastly, of Jena fect- Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about 12 Christ himself....

...better dispensation, they would receive their accomplishment. " God having provided those better things for us, that they without us should not be made perfect" — they still cherished a holy desire to look forward to " the glory to be revealed," and rejoiced in the anticipation...

...of God ; concerning whom St. Paul affirms expressly, that ' the fathers received not the promises ; God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect :'6 therefore cer' Jude, 6. * Matt. viii. 29. 3 2 Pet. ii. 9. Lactant. lib. vii. c. 21,...

...the promises," of which the eternalizing Spirit of promise was one, 1 John ii. 25 ; Eph. i. 13, 14, " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect," Heb. xi. 13, 39, 40; John vi. 49—63 ; viii. 51—53 ; Matt. xvi. 24 — 28. Christ,...