By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.
Faith gives the soul a kind of possession of what is hoped for, a foretaste so real that believers are filled with joy unspeakable. It is to the soul what the senses are to the body; it demonstrates invisible things to the eye of the mind as surely as sight perceives what is before the eyes.
AI summary
Commenting on Hebrews 11:1-3
we understand--We perceive with our spiritual intelligence the fact of the world's creation by God, though we see neither Him nor the act of creation as described in Gen. 1:1-31. The natural world could not, without revelation, teach us this truth, though it confirms the truth when apprehended by faith (Rom 1:20).
3. Through, or by, faith we understand, That is “We, by faith in God’s word which gives the record, understand, or know how the world was made.” This the heathens did not know by the light of reason, and yet they might have known this, as the Apostle declares in Romans 1:20.