Vincent Word Studies - Hebrews 11:35 - 11:35

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Vincent Word Studies - Hebrews 11:35 - 11:35


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Women

The recorded raisings from the dead are mostly for women. See 1Ki 17:17 ff.; 2Ki 4:17 ff. Comp. Luk 7:11 ff.; John 11; Acts 9. The reference here is to the first two.

Raised to life again (ἐξ ἀναστάσεως)

Rend. “by a resurrection”; and for the force of ἐξ comp. Rom 1:4.

Were tortured (ἐτυμπανίσθησαν)

N.T.o. lxx once, 1 Samuel 21:13. Originally to beat a drum (τύμπανον). Hence to beat, to cudgel. The A.V. of 1Sa 21:13, describing the feigned madness of David, renders ἐτυμπάνιζεν “he scrabbled on the doors of the gate,” meaning that he beat the doors like a madman. Τύμπανον means a drum or a drumstick; hence a cudgel; so Aristoph. Plut. 476, where it is associated with κύφων a pillory. Comp. 2 Macc. 6:19, 28. The meaning here is, were beaten to death with clubs, the word being used to represent cruel torture in general.

Not accepting deliverance (οὐπροσδεξάμενοι τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν)

For the verb, see on Heb 10:34. The (τὴν) deliverance offered at the price of denying their faith. See 2 Macc. 6:21-27.

A better resurrection (κρείττονος ἀναστάσεως)

Better than a resurrection like those granted to the women above mentioned, which gave merely a continuation of life on earth. Comp. 2 Macc. 7:9, 14.