...encountered every danger, and even braved all the terrors of death. " These all," adds the apostle, " having obtained a good report through faith, received...better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.'" Then follows his noble and eloquent exhortation ; " Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed...

...Jesus Christ, or the Son incarnate, because the grace of it unto them was not to be accomplished ; ' God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect;' they were not intrusted with the full revelation of God, by all his blessed names. Neither...

...very day. Made perfect; You will say, Doth not the same apostle thus express himself? Heb. xi. 40, " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." Answ. 1. They borrowed their perfection from our gospel dispensation ; for the law made...

...world 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...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...

...39, 40 : These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. These all, having obtained a good report through faith,...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 they without us should not be made perfect." They were come to the better thing provided, without whjch- those persons were not perfected....

...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...

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