Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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.
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
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,.... The apostle proceeds to examples of faith, and begins with Abel: it may seem strange that Adam and Eve are not mentioned; this omission is not because they were not believers; but either because of the fall and ruin of mankind by them; or because the apostle speaks only of such who had...