the same way as eVayysX/a, the promise, ver. 9, 11, 13, 17, 33, 39.
8. 'A(3paa/j,, Abraham) Rom. iv. 1, 16, etc. — vvrfaowfev JggX^s/i/, xat IgSjXtfg, obeyed so as that he should go out, and went out) A grada tion [but Engl. Vers. joins IJgX^/vwith xaXou/o-gvog] ; comp. 2 Cor. viii. ver. 10, at the end, and ver. 11. — ?/*sXXf) A word adapted to future events. So ver. 20 ; with which comp. ver. 1. — //,?) sKKtrdftevoc, not knowing) Comp. Acts vii. 3, at the end.
9. Tlapuxriffev) Pie went to dwell as a stranger in, ver. 13, note. — rye, s'TTayye'^ias, of the promise} It had been promised imme diately, Gen. xii. 7. — Iv ffxqvafg, in tabernacles) Gen. xii. 8: wdpoixoi, strangers (new-comers, sojourners) use tents. The an tithesis is fl-oX/s, a city, ver. 10. — /^erd, with) The same mode of living, a proof of the same faith. It is construed with napuKriffev, was a stranger. — xai 'laxu/3, and Jacob) He was fifteen years old at the death of Abraham. — ruv ffuyx\7}pov6fj,uv, joint-heirs) In no other place are sons called joint-heirs with their parents, but merely heirs. Isaac did not acknowledge himself indebted for the inheritance to Abraham, nor Jacob to Isaac, but they re ceived it severally from God Himself. This expression, the heirs of the promise, and sViVu^g TH2 lirayyeX/ag, he obtained THE pro mise, vi. 17, 12, 15, are said of the very thing promised ; but both phrases in this chap. ver. 9, 33, the joint-heirs of the promise, and eirervxpv JcrayyeX/wv (without the article ruv), obtained promises, and in like manner, ver. 17, 6 ra$ znuyy&Jag dvade^d/usvog, he who received the promises, are said of the promise of something future: and believers are said to receive, to obtain, Xupfiaveiv, Ko/u?z<f6ai, the very thing promised, especially in this same chapter, ver. 13, 39. The difference of expressions is suitable to the dif ferent scope of ch. vi. and xi. ; for in ch. vi. the condition itself of men in former times is commended, and proposed as an ex ample ; but in ch. xi. the condition of New Testament believers is celebrated above the other (viz. that of Old Testament be lievers).
10. ToOf depsXfoug, the foundations) which the tents had not. Of these foundations, see Rev. xxi. 14. — -roX/v, a city) which is not removed (as a tent is) : v. 16. — fo, whose) which is worthy of GOD, its founder. — rg^vmjc xai dyifMovpybc, [builder and maker] contriver and founder) The synonymous terms intimate, that the