...was not worthy,) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens, and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith...better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let...

...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...

...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 they without us should not be made perfect." They were come to the better thing provided, without whjch- those persons were not perfected....

...full assurance that their little sweet ones were delivered from a vain and evil worM. ' All these, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided better things for them;' Heb. xi. 39, 40: — even * an inheritance incorruptible, and undefined, and...

...temporal things. NC For the Clirislitiii Spectator. Exposition of Hebreicg xi. 39, 40. And 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...

...to themselves ; but that in another and a later age, they should receive their accomplishment. " And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,...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...

..." For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did." And chap. xi. 40: " God having provided some better thing for us. that...they, without us, should not be made perfect." The ancient dispensation is spoken of as that which God found fault with, in proving ineffectual through...

...They had the first-fruits ; we have the whole vintage. They had the dawn ; we have the full day — God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. They, from their comparative darkness, were inspired with more disquiet and terror ;...

...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....

...the promises, but having seen them afar off, [see John, vi. 57, 58; viii. 31, 52, above.'] 39, 4O, These all having obtained a good report through faith,...thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect, [receive the accomplishment,] Heb viii. 19, The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing...