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Heb 11:9. Παρῴκησεν) He went to dwell as a stranger in, Heb 11:13, note.-τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, of the promise) It had been promised immediately, Gen 12:7.-ἐν σκηναῖς, in tabernacles) Gen 12:8 : πάροικοι, strangers (new-comers, sojourners) use tents. The antithesis is πόλις, a city, Heb 11:10.-μετὰ, with) The same mode of living, a proof of the same faith. It is construed with παρῴκησεν, was a stranger.-καὶ Ἰακὼβ, and Jacob) He was fifteen years old at the death of Abraham.-τῶν συγκληρονόμων, joint-heirs) In no other place are sons called joint-heirs with their parents, but merely heirs. Isaac did not acknowledge himself indebted for the inheritance to Abraham, nor Jacob to Isaac, but they received it severally from God Himself. This expression, the heirs of the promise, and ἐπέτυχε ΤΗΣ ἐπαγγελίας, he obtained THE promise, Heb 6:17, Heb 12:15, are said of the very thing promised; but both phrases in this chap. Heb 11:9; Heb 11:33, the joint-heirs of the promise, and ἐπέτυχον ἐπαγγελιῶν (without the article τῶν), obtained promises, and in like manner, Heb 11:17, ὁ τὰς ἐπυγγελίας ἀναδεξάμενος, he who received the promises, are said of the promise of something future: and believers are said to receive, to obtain, λαμβάνειν, κομιζεσθαι, the very thing promised, especially in this same chapter, Heb 11:13; Heb 11:39. The difference of expressions is suitable to the different scope of ch. 6 and 9; for in ch. 6 the condition itself of men in former times is commended, and proposed as an example; but in ch. 11 the condition of New Testament believers is celebrated above the other (viz. that of Old Testament believers).