 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 588 pàgines
..." 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... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1830 - 434 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 634 pàgines
...concerning the Patriarchs, and other good men before Christ's incarnation ; ' And these all having obtained a good report through faith, received not...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 pàgines
...concerning the Patriarchs, and other good men before Christ's incarnation ; ' And these all having obtained a good report through faith, received not...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... | |
 | William Mathers - 1831 - 214 pàgines
...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 faith, received not...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... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 470 pàgines
...which they could not be perfected : wherefore it is written, Heb. xi. 39, 40, « And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not...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 pàgines
...that has been said is crowned by the concluding sentence of the apostle — " And these all having obtained a good report, through faith, received not...some better thing for us, that they without us should Bot be made perfect ;" which " better thing,'' whether it mean the personal appearance of the Messiah,... | |
 | 1832 - 488 pàgines
...David, " &c. who are instanced,) having " obtained a good report [or rather " having borne witness*] through " faith, received not the promise ; " God...thing for us, that they without us " should not be made perfect." k This proves, that, whether the enjoyment of the promise is to be on earth or in heaven,... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1832 - 240 pàgines
...things which the angels themselves desire to look into i. And especially we bless thee, that thou hast provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect «. (6.) For the wonderful and mysterious incarnation of the Son of God, and his coming... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1832 - 322 pàgines
...'which of the two is to be preferred. When the apostle says, chap. xi. 39, 40, " These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not...better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect ;" he speaks of the dispensation of higher and more abundant privilege which was to succeed... | |
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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. 
