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Heb_11:39-40. General remark in closing.
Καὶ οὗτοι πάντες ] And these all. Refers back to the totality of the persons named, from Heb_11:4 (not merely, as Schlichting, Hammond, and Storr suppose, to those mentioned from ἄλλοι δέ , Heb_11:35).
μαρτυρηθέντες διὰ τῆς πίστεως ] although by virtue of their faith they received a (glorious) testimony (in Scripture).
οὐκ ἐκομίσαντο τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν ] did not bear away the promise (wrongly Ebrard: the aorist stands “pro plusquamperf.”), i.e. attained not, so long as they lived, to the possession of that which was promised, namely, the Messianic blessedness.