translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HEB

label: NET translator note

text: Or “the elders,” “the ancients.”


text: Grk “were attested,” “received commendation”; and Heb 11:4-6 shows this to be from God.


text: Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage.


text: Grk “by God’s word.”


text: Or “through his sacrifice”; Grk “through which.”


text: Or “through his sacrifice”; Grk “through it.”


text: Cf. BDAG 407 s.v. εὐλαβέομαι 2, “out of reverent regard (for God’s command).”


text: Or “settled as a resident alien.”


text: Or “heirs with him.”


text: Grk “that has foundations.”


text: Grk “past the time of maturity.”


text: Grk “power to deposit seed.” Though it is not as likely, some construe this phrase to mean “power to conceive seed,” making the whole verse about Sarah: “by faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and too old, she received ability to conceive, because she regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.”


text: Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.


text: Grk a collective “the sand.”


text: Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.


text: Or “sojourners.”


text: Grk “now.”


text: Here “received the promises” refers to the pledges themselves, not to the things God promised.


text: Grk “he was offering up.” The tense of this verb indicates the attempt or readiness to sacrifice Isaac without the actual completion of the deed.


text: Grk “in Isaac seed will be named for you.” sn A quotation from Gen 21:12 .


text: Grk “having reasoned,” continuing the ideas of v. 17 .


text: Grk “in/by a symbol.”


text: Grk “worshiped on the top of his staff,” a quotation from Gen 47:31 (LXX).


text: Grk “coming to an end,” “dying.”


text: Grk “about his bones,” which refers by metonymy to the disposition of his bones, i.e., his burial. sn The instructions about his burial are recorded in Gen 50:25 .


text: Grk “Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents.”


text: Grk “the abuse [or ‘reproach’] of Christ.”


text: Grk “he was looking away to.”


text: Grk “the pouring out of the blood.” sn The sprinkling of the blood refers here to the application of the blood to the doorways of the Israelite houses (cf. Exod 12:7, 13 ).


text: For location see Map5-B2 ; Map6-E1 ; Map7-E1 ; Map8-E3 ; Map10-A2 ; Map11-A1 .


text: Grk “after they had been encircled.”


text: Grk “did not perish together with.”


text: This probably refers to the righteous rule of David and others. But it could be more general and mean “did what was righteous.”


text: Grk “obtained promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves. sn Gained what was promised. They saw some of God’s promises fulfilled, even though the central promise remained unfulfilled until Christ came (cf. vv. 39-40 ).


text: Grk “quenched the power of fire.”


text: Or “recovered from sickness.”


text: Grk “received back their dead from resurrection.”


text: Grk “to obtain a better resurrection.”


text: Cl). Since the two words ἐπρίσθησαν and ἐπειράσθησαν are so much alike in sight and sound, and since the position of “they were tempted” varies in the mss , it seems best to say that ἐπειράσθησαν is an accidental corruption of ἐπρίσθησαν or an intentional change to a more common word (the root of ἐπρίσθησαν [ πρίζω , prizw ] occurs only here in the NT, while the root of ἐπειράσθησαν [ πειράζω , peirazw ] occurs 38 times). The best reading here seems to be “sawed apart” without any addition before or after. (See TCGNT 603-4, for a discussion of emendations that scholars have proposed for this difficult problem.)


text: Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.


text: The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that they would not be made perfect without us.”