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Hebrews 11:40 — King James Version← Study notes

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.


Hebrews 11:40Greek Interlinear

Greek · Hebrews 11:4012 words
GreekMeaning
τοῦtou
thearticleG3588
θεοῦtheou
GodnounG2316
περὶperi
forprepositionG4012
ἡμῶνhēmōn
uspronounG1473
κρεῖττόνkreitton
betteradjectiveG2909
τιti
somethingpronounG5100
προβλεψαμένουproblepsamenou
having plannedverbG4265
ἵναhina
so thatwordG2443
μὴ
notadverbG3361
χωρὶςchōris
apart fromprepositionG5565
ἡμῶνhēmōn
uspronounG1473
τελειωθῶσινteleiōthōsin
they may be made perfectverbG5048
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Hebrews 11:40

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…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Homily 28 on Hebrews
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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