Hebrews 11:12

Hebrews 11:12

10 for he waited for ^athe city which has foundations, ^bwhose builder and maker is God.

11 By faith ^aSarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and ^bshe bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him ^cfaithful who had promised.

12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as ^adead, were born as many as the ^bstars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

The Heavenly Hope

13 These all died in faith, ^anot having received the ^bpromises, but ^chaving seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and ^dconfessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

14 For those who say such things ^adeclare plainly that they seek a homeland.

15 And truly if they had called to mind ^athat country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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And that as good as dead (kai tauta nenekrwmenou). Accusative of general reference (tauta), sometimes singular as in I Corinthians 6:8. The perfect passive participle from nekrow, late verb to make dead, to treat as dead (Romans 4:19), here by hyperbole.

By the sea shore (para to xeilov thv qalasshv). "Along the lip of the sea" (from Genesis 22:17), xeilov here alone in this sense in the N.T.

Innumerable (anariqmhtov). Old compound verbal adjective (alpha privative and ariqmew, to number), here alone in N.T.

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