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““By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.”
““By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.”
“for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae, of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets.”
““Now the LORD had said unto Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee,” and “by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.”
““We seek a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”
“It is “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
“He looks up to the celestial “city that has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”
“They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and tormented.”
“” We have evidence that it did, for God said to Cain, “The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground,” and the apostle’s comment upon that in another place is—“By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of hi…”
“It is by this faith that he sees things not as yet visible to the eye of sense, realizes the unseen, and beholds the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things which the natural eye cannot discern.”
““They wandered about in sheep’s skins and goats’ skins, destitute, afflicted, tormented.”
“Men see them not, but I see them, for “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
“While others were slain by the sword, rent in pieces by wild beasts, were destitute, afflicted, tormented.”
“You army of martyrs, you were slain, you were torn asunder, you were cast to wild beasts, you wandered about in sheep skins and goats’ skins, destitute, afflicted, and tormented.”