Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Your fathers, where are they? - The abrupt solemnity of the question seems to imply an unexpected close of life which cut short their hopes, plans, promises to self. "When they said, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them" I Thessalonians 5:3. Yet not they only but the prophets too, who ministered God' s Word to them, these also being human beings, passed away, some of them before their time as people, by the martyr' s death. Many of them saw not their own words fulfilled. But God' s word which they spake, being from God, passed not away.
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