15. μακροθυμήσας. “Having patiently endured,” which may mean “by patient endurance.” The participles in this passage are really contemporaneous with the principal verbs.
ἐπέτυχεν. Gen 15:1; Gen 21:5; Gen 22:17-18; Gen 25:7, &c.; Joh 8:56. There is of course no contradiction to Heb 11:13; Heb 11:39, which refers to a farther future and a wider hope.