For by it the people of old received their commendation.
2. For by it the elders, Macknight and Stuart render the word “ancients” and more suitably in our language. The word “elders” most commonly refers to age, but “ancients” to time: those meant here were such as lived before and under the Law. — Ed. etc.
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.
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Commenting on Hebrews 11:1-3
For by it the elders obtained a good report. By whom are meant, not merely old men, or elders in age, but such who lived in ancient times; some before the flood, and to a great age, and others who were in office, civil or ecclesiastical, and were the ancestors and predecessors of the Hebrews; who in general obtained or received a good report from...