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The Saints Have Always Endured By Faith

11 Now[a] faith is the assurance[b] of things being hoped-for[c], the conviction[d] of things not being seen[e]. For in this the elders[f] were attested.

The Early Times

By faith we understand that the worlds have been prepared by the word of God, so that the thing being seen has not[g] come-into-being from things being visible.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:1 The writer now proves by example that God’s people have always endured by faith (10:36-39).
  2. Hebrews 11:1 That is, our subjective confidence about the future things. Or, substance, reality; that is, the objective present reality of the future things.
  3. Hebrews 11:1 That is, future realities.
  4. Hebrews 11:1 Or, the certainty, the being-convinced. Or, the proof, the evidence, the thing-convincing.
  5. Hebrews 11:1 That is, unseen realities, past, present, and future.
  6. Hebrews 11:2 That is, the OT saints mentioned next.
  7. Hebrews 11:3 has not... visible. Or, has come-into-being from things not being visible.

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