“And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:”
And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised — the crucial reversal: all were testified to (martyreo) through faith yet did not receive (komizo) what was promised. The Old Testament faithful died anticipating but not attaining.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 11:39
At all times indeed, but especially then when I reflect upon the achievements of the saints, it comes over me to feel despondency concerning my own condition, because we have not even in dreams experienced the things among which those men spent their whole lives, not paying the penalty of sins, but always doing rightly and yet always afflicted. For consider, I beseech you, Elijah, to whom our discourse has come round today, for he speaks of him in this passage, and in him…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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