 | Alfred Addis - 1830 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 602 pages
...and other good men before Christ's incarnation ; And these all having obtained a good Heh. xi. 39. report through faith, received not the promise, God...better thing for us, that they without us should not be perfect. Hither also they referred that of the Psalmist, Lift up your Psai. heads, O ye gates; and... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 588 pages
..." For the law made nething 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... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1830 - 434 pages
...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,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1830 - 566 pages
...Paul says, of the Ancient saints, And these all, having obtained a good report through Faith, rtcthed not the promise : God having provided some better thing for us, that iTwy without us should not be made perfect. The promise here denotes, I apprehend, the good, or reward,... | |
 | William Mathers - 1831 - 214 pages
...wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. — 89. 40. And these all, having obtained a good report through...better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 8. And the four beasts (living creatures) had each of them six wings about him; and they... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 634 pages
...Apostle to the Hebrews, concerning the Patriarchs, and other good men before Christ's incarnation ; ' And these all having obtained a good report through...better thing for us, that they without us should not be perfect.' Hither also they referred that of the Psalmist, ' Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 634 pages
...Apostle to the Hebrews, concerning the Patriarchs, and other good men before Christ's incarnation ; ' And these all having obtained a good report through...better thing for us, that they without us should not be perfect.' Hither also they referred that of the Psalmist, ' Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 470 pages
...that thing without which they could not be perfected : wherefore it is written, Heb. xi. 39, 40, « And these all, having obtained a good report through...better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." And in the enumeration of the heavenly company in the following chapter of the Hebrews,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1831 - 458 pages
...proof were necessary, all that has been said is crowned by the concluding sentence of the apostle — " t was performed after " he was parted from them,"...respect paid to superiors. This was always done i Bot be made perfect ;" which " better thing,'' whether it mean the personal appearance of the Messiah,... | |
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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. 
