 | Eugene Russell Hendrix - 1903 - 298 pages
...incomplete, but they themselves have not received the promise, God having provided some better things concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. However blissful their present conscious state, 23° Spiritual Gravitation; they wait the redemption... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1904 - 316 pages
...the sword ; who wandered in deserts and mountains, and caves and holes of the earth. And all these, having had witness borne to them through their faith,...having provided some better thing concerning us." They received not the promise — none of them ; nor was the promise ever fulfilled in the way which... | |
 | James Henry MacDonald - 1905 - 160 pages
...history contained in the letter to the Hebrews : "These all, though witness was borne to them through faith, received not the promise, God having provided...that apart from us they should not be made perfect." For here we strike the paradox of religious history. Periods of waning faith are also periods of renewed... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1905 - 312 pages
...the sword ; who wandered in deserts and mountains, and caves and holes of the earth. And all these, having had witness borne to them through their faith,...having provided some better thing concerning us." They received not the promise — none of them ; nor was the promise ever fulfilled in the way which... | |
 | Dartmouth College - 1905 - 174 pages
...without the slightest knowledge of this Lord Jesus of yours." " I know it," says this wonderful man. " These all, having had witness borne to them through...the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." Was there ever audacity so great? Was there... | |
 | Wilson Samuel Naylor - 1905 - 376 pages
...was not worthy) ; they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having had witness borne to them through...the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." In 1904 the Church of England had in ugranaa... | |
 | Robert Allen Hume - 1905 - 312 pages
...a better covenant, a better sacrifice, a better substance, a better country, better things," etc. " God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfeet." As in the first century so now, the adjective " better " is the right expression for the... | |
 | William Kelly - 1905 - 314 pages
...these all having been witnessed of through their faith received not the promise, 40God having foreseen some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be perfected. XII. Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying... | |
 | Willis Judson Beecher - 1905 - 456 pages
...Isaac and Jacob as "heirs with him of the same promise." And of "these all" he says that they — " received not the promise, God having provided some better thing concerning us " (Heb. xi. 9, 39-40). 1 In a similar strain Paul says to the Romans that " the promise to Abraham... | |
 | 1906 - 526 pages
...have reason to believe that they have long since secured what they so conceived cot the promise, (40) God having 'provided some better thing concerning...that apart from us they should not be made perfect. XII Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside... | |
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And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. 
