Zsidók 11:8

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

Hit által engedelmeskedett Ábrahám, mikor elhívatott, hogy menjen ki arra a helyre, a melyet örökölendõ vala, és kiméne, nem tudván, hová megy.

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Abraham: Genesis 11:31, Genesis 12:1-4, Joshua 24:3, Nehemiah 9:7, Nehemiah 9:8, Isaiah 41:2, Isaiah 51:2, Acts 7:2-4

which: Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:15-17, Genesis 15:7, Genesis 15:8, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 26:3, Deuteronomy 9:5, Psalms 105:9-11, Ezekiel 36:24

obeyed: Hebrews 11:33, Hebrews 5:9, Genesis 22:18, Genesis 15:5, Matthew 7:24, Matthew 7:25, Romans 1:5, Romans 6:17, Romans 10:16, 2 Corinthians 10:5, James 2:14-16, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 3:1, 1 Peter 4:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:22 - General Genesis 12:4 - departed out Genesis 12:5 - and into Genesis 15:6 - he believed Genesis 15:13 - thy Genesis 20:13 - God Genesis 22:3 - General Genesis 26:5 - General Exodus 10:26 - and we Exodus 19:5 - if ye Numbers 9:5 - according Numbers 10:30 - General Joshua 6:12 - the priests Ruth 2:11 - and how 2 Samuel 24:19 - as the Lord 1 Kings 17:15 - did according 2 Kings 4:5 - she went 2 Kings 5:14 - according to Job 36:11 - If Job 42:9 - did Psalms 22:4 - General Psalms 56:8 - tellest Jeremiah 13:5 - as Matthew 1:24 - did Matthew 2:21 - General Mark 11:4 - and found Luke 22:13 - General John 2:5 - Whatsoever John 13:17 - happy Acts 6:7 - obedient Acts 7:3 - Get Acts 8:27 - he arose Acts 12:9 - he went Acts 16:6 - forbidden Romans 2:8 - and do not Romans 15:18 - to make Galatians 3:1 - ye Galatians 5:6 - faith Galatians 5:7 - obey 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - your 2 Thessalonians 1:8 - and that Hebrews 6:12 - faith

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By faith, Abraham, when he was called,.... The Alexandrian copy and the Vulgate Latin version read, "by faith he who was called Abraham"; but this call is not to be understood of his name; for though his first name Abram might be given him, in the faith of his being a great man, and his second name Abraham, when he himself was a believer; yet this change was made some years after the call referred to; which is that in Genesis 12:1 when he was called out of his own country, kindred, and father's house; which was an emblem of the call of God's people out from among the men of the world, and from their friends, relations, and acquaintance, and even out of themselves; and as Abraham was called from "Ur" of the Chaldees, so they from darkness, bondage, idolatry, and communion with wicked men; that, as he, they might not perish with idolaters, being chosen vessels, and for whom God has peculiar blessings in store: and so the grace of God is seen in calling them, without any respect to their deserts, as in calling Abraham: and the care and goodness of God may be observed, in raising up fit instruments to propagate his cause and interest. Now Abraham, being called

to go out into a place; from Ur of the Chaldees, to the land of Canna;

which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance; not in his own person, but in his seed and posterity, unless after the resurrection, in the New Jerusalem church state, and which inheritance was typical of heaven;

obeyed the divine call; and which was a fruit and evidence of his faith, and may he called the obedience of faith:

and he went out, not knowing whither he went: for though he went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and into the land of Canaan he came, Genesis 12:5, yet, when God called him to go forth, and he prepared to obey his call, he knew not what land he was to go into; for it is only said, Genesis 12:1,

unto a land that I will show thee: upon which words a Jewish commentator r has this note;

"he (God) did not immediately make known the land unto him, that so it might be lovely in his eyes;''

and it is, elsewhere, said by the Jews s, that Abraham

"came from Aspamia (i.e. Mesopotamia), and its companions,

ולא היה יודע היכן, "and he knew not where" he was, as a man that is in the dark;''

all which agrees with our apostle: and, from hence, it may be observed, that God sometimes leads his people in ways they have not known, though they are known to him, and are always right; and that it is the property of faith to follow God, when it cannot see its way; and a great mercy it is to have God for a guide. This also shows, that Abraham's faith agrees with the apostle's definition of it, Hebrews 11:1.

r Jarchi in Gen. xii. 1. s Bereshit Rabba, sect. 60. fol. 52. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By faith Abraham - There is no difficulty in determining that Abraham was influenced by faith in God. The case is even stronger than that of Noah, for it is expressly declared, Genesis 15:6, “And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.” Compare notes, Romans 4:1-5. In the illustrations of the power of faith in this chapter, the apostle appeals to two instances in which it was exhibited by Abraham, “the father of the faithful.” Each of these required confidence in God of extraordinary strength, and each of them demanded a special and honorable mention. The first was that when he left his own country to go to a distant land of strangers (Genesis 15:8-10); the other when he showed his readiness to sacrifice his own son in obedience to the will of God, Hebrews 11:17-19.

When he was called - Genesis 12:1, “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.”

Into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed - To Palestine, or the land of Canaan, though that was not indicated at the time.

And he went out, not knowing whither he went - Genesis 12:4. Abraham at that time took with him Sarai, and Lot the son of his brother, and “the souls that they had gotten in Haran.” Terah, the father of Abraham, started on the journey with them, but died in Haran; Genesis 11:31-32. The original call was made to Abraham, Genesis 12:1; Acts 7:2-3, but he appears to have induced his father and his nephew to accompany him. At this time he had no children Genesis 11:30, though it seems probable that Lot had; Genesis 12:5. Some, however, understand the expression in Genesis 12:5, “and the souls they had gotten in Haran,” as referring to the servants or domestics that they had in various ways procured, and to the fact that Abraham and Lot gradually drew around them a train of dependents and followers who were disposed to unite with them, and accompany them wherever they went. The Chaldee Paraphrast; understands it of the proselytes which Abraham had made there - “All the souls which he had subdued unto the law.” When it is said that Abraham “went out, not knowing whither he went,” it must be understood as meaning that he was ignorant to what country he would in fact be led. If it be supposed that he had some general intimation of the nature of that country, arid of the direction in which it was situated, yet it must be remembered that the knowledge of geography was then exceedingly imperfect; that this was a distant country; that it lay beyond a pathless desert, and that probably no traveler had ever come from that land to apprize him what it was. All this serves to show what was the strength of the faith of Abraham.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 11:8. Abraham, when he was called — See on Genesis 12:1-4.

Not knowing whither he went. — Therefore his obedience was the fullest proof of his faith in God, and his faith was an implicit faith; he obeyed, and went out from his own country, having no prospect of any good or success but what his implicit faith led him to expect from God, as the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. In all the preceding cases, and in all that follow, the apostle keeps this maxim fully in view.