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geneva@Hebrews:11:1 @ Now (note:)An excellent description of faith by the effects, because it represents things which are but yet in hope, and sets as it were before our eyes things that are invisible.(:note) faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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geneva@Hebrews:11:6 @ But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a (note:)This reward is not referred to our merits, but to the free promise, as Paul teaches in Abraham the father of all the faithful, (Rom_4:4).(:note) rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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geneva@Hebrews:11:9 @ By faith he abode in the land of promes, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes.

geneva@Hebrews:11:10 @ For he looked for a city which hath (note:)This foundation is contrasted with their tabernacle.(:note) foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.

geneva@Hebrews:11:11 @ Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a childe when she was past age, because she iudged him faithfull which had promised.

geneva@Hebrews:11:12 @ Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as (note:)As unlikely to bear children, as if he had been dead.(:note) dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

geneva@Hebrews:11:13 @ These all died in (note:)In faith, which they had while they lived, and followed, them even to their grave.(:note) faith, not having received the This is the figure metonymy, for the things promised. promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and For the patriarchs were given to profess their religion by building an altar and calling on the name of the Lord when they received the promises. embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

geneva@Hebrews:11:14 @ For they that say such things, declare plainely, that they seeke a countrey.

geneva@Hebrews:11:15 @ And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned.

geneva@Hebrews:11:16 @ But nowe they desire a better, that is an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.

geneva@Hebrews:11:17 @ By faith Abraham, when he was (note:)Tried by the Lord.(:note) tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the Although the promises of life were made in that only begotten son Isaac, yet he appointed him to die; and so against hope he believed in hope. promises offered up his only begotten [son],

geneva@Hebrews:11:18 @ (To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede be called.)

geneva@Hebrews:11:19 @ Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from (note:)From which death.(:note) whence also he received him in For there was not the true and very death of Isaac, but as it were the death, by means of which he seemed also to have risen again. a figure.

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geneva@Hebrews:11:24 @ By faith Moses when he was come to age, refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter,

geneva@Hebrews:11:25 @ Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the (note:)Such pleasures as he could not enjoy, unless he provoked God's wrath against him.(:note) pleasures of sin for a season;

geneva@Hebrews:11:26 @ Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect vnto the recompence of the reward.

geneva@Hebrews:11:27 @ By faith he forsooke Egypt, and feared not the fiercenes of the king: for he endured, as he that sawe him which is inuisible.

geneva@Hebrews:11:28 @ Through faith he ordeined the Passeouer and the effusion of blood, least he that destroyed the first borne, should touche them.

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geneva@Hebrews:11:33 @ Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained (note:)The fruit of the promises.(:note) promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

geneva@Hebrews:11:34 @ Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sworde, of weake were made strong, waxed valiant in battell, turned to flight the armies of the aliants.

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geneva@Hebrews:11:36 @ And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment.

geneva@Hebrews:11:37 @ They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in (note:)In vile and rough clothing, so were the saints brought to extreme poverty, and constrained to live like beasts in the wilderness.(:note) sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

geneva@Hebrews:11:38 @ Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues of the earth.

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geneva@Hebrews:11:40 @ God having provided some better thing for us, that they (note:)For their salvation depended on Christ, who was exhibited in our days.(:note) without us should not be made perfect.

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