in this way (referring to what precedes or follows) · adverb
endured
μακροθυμήσαςmakrothumēsas
G3114
to be long-spirited · verb — aorist active participle, nominative singular masculine
obtained
ἐπέτυχενepetuchen
G2013
to chance upon · verb — second aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular
promise
ἐπαγγελίας.epangelias
G1860
an announcement (for information · noun — genitive singular feminine
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Cross-references
Genesis 12:2-3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Romans 4:17-25 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth t…
Genesis 15:2-6 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
Genesis 21:2-7 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Hebrews 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Genesis 17:16-17 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be…
Exodus 1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with…
Habakkuk 2:2-3 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 6:9–end
The apostle, having applied himself to the fears of the Hebrews, in order to excite their diligence and prevent their apostasy, now proceeds to apply himself to their hopes, and candidly declares the good hope he had concerning them, that they would persevere; and proposes to them the great encouragements they had in the way of their duty.
I. He freely and openly declares the good hope he had concerning them, that they would endure to the end: But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, Heb 6:9. Observe, 1. There are things that accompany salvation, things that are never separated from salvation, things that show the person to be in a state of salvation, and will issue in eternal sal…
He obtained the promise - Isaac was supernaturally born; and in his birth God began to fulfill the promise: while he lived, he saw a provision made for the multiplication of his seed; and, having continued steadfast in the faith, he received the end of all the promises in the enjoyment of an eternal glory. And the inference from this is: If we believe and prove faithful unto death, we shall also inherit the promises; and this is what is implied in the apostle's exhortation, Heb 6:12 : Be not slothful, but followers of them, etc.
John Gill on Hebrews 6:15
And so, after he had patiently endured,.... He waited long for a son, from whom the Messiah was to spring, after he had had the promise of one; and he endured many afflictions with patience, in his journeys from place to place, throughout his life to the end:
he obtained the promise; he was greatly blessed in temporal things; he lived to see the son of the promise, and his sons; he saw the day of Christ by faith, and now inherits the heavenly glory, which is the thing chiefly designed.
John Calvin
The Church Fathers
Yet though making a promise and doing it with an oath, he did not immediately fulfill the promise; instead, the patriarch needed great patience, and only with the passage of a great length of time did he thus see the realization of the promise.
"And so, having patiently." You see that the patience of Abraham accomplished something? He said that by being patient he obtained the promise, in order to show the great power of patience, and that it was not the promise alone that accomplished everything; but also patience. "he attained the promise." And yet in the end, it says that all these, having seen them from afar and embraced them, did not receive the promises, so that they would not be made perfect apart from us. How then does he say here, "he attained the promise?" And we say, he did not speak about the same things. For the things here he has given to him, concerning which he now spoke, but those there, he keeps, concerning which he says at the end of the Epistle, "And the end of all their opposition." (Heb. 12:3) And the end of all opposition and dispute to confirm the things spoken by him is the oath. Both, however, the obtaining and the not yet obtaining, serve as encouragement to the faint-hearted; the one, that we also, if we endure patiently, will obtain; the other, that, since he has not yet obtained it, though perfected many years ago, we who are still struggling are not foolish because we have not yet obtained it.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Covenant — A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a…
Patience · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Perseverance · 1:10,22,23;2:7; — 1:10,22,23;2:7;
Promises Of God, The · Are: Inherited through faith and patience — Are: Inherited through faith and patience
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
on Hebrews 6:11-15
Hebrews 6:11-15
11. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
11. Desideramus autem ununquemque vestrum idem ostendere studium ad certitudinem spei usque in finem;
12. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
12. Ne segnes (vel, molles, aut fluxi) reddamini, sed potius imitatores eorum qui per fidem et patientiam haereditario obtinuerunt promissiones.
13. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
13. Abrahae enim promittens Deus, quandoquidem majorem per quem juraret, non habebat, juravit per seipsum;
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