SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:12
Por lo cual tambin de uno, y ese ya muerto, salieron como las estrellas del cielo en multitud, y como la arena innumerable que est a la orilla del mar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 11:12
Verse 12. Him as good as dead] According to nature, long past the time of the procreation of children. The birth of Isaac, the circumstances of the father and mother considered, was entirely supernatural; and the people who proceeded from this birth were a supernatural people; and were and are most strikingly singular through every period of their history to the present day.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-19 - We are often called to leave worldly connexions, interests, an comforts. If heirs of Abraham's faith, we shall obey and go forth though not knowing what may befall us; and we shall be found in the way of duty, looking for the performance of God's promises. The trial of Abraham's faith was, that he simply and fully obeyed the call of God Sarah received the promise as the promise of God; being convinced of that, she truly judged that he both could and would perform it. Many who have a part in the promises, do not soon receive the thing promised. Faith can lay hold of blessings at a great distance; can make them present; can love them and rejoice in them, though strangers; a saints, whose home is heaven; as pilgrims, travelling toward their home. By faith, they overcome the terrors of death, and bid a cheerfu farewell to this world, and to all the comforts and crosses of it. An those once truly and savingly called out of a sinful state, have n mind to return into it. All true believers desire the heavenl inheritance; and the stronger faith is, the more fervent those desire will be. Notwithstanding their meanness by nature, their vileness be sin, and the poverty of their outward condition, God is not ashamed to be called the God of all true believers; such is his mercy, such is his love to them. Let them never be ashamed of being called his people, no of any of those who are truly so, how much soever despised in the world. Above all, let them take care that they are not a shame an reproach to their God. The greatest trial and act of faith upon recor is, Abraham's offering up Isaac, Ge 22:2. There, every word shows trial. It is our duty to reason down our doubts and fears, by looking as Abraham did, to the Almighty power of God. The best way to enjoy ou comforts is, to give them up to God; he will then again give them a shall be the best for us. Let us look how far our faith has caused the like obedience, when we have been called to lesser acts of self-denial or to make smaller sacrifices to our duty. Have we given up what wa called for, fully believing that the Lord would make up all our losses and even bless us by the most afflicting dispensations?
Greek Textus Receptus
διο 1352 και 2532 αφ 575 ενος 1520 εγεννηθησαν 1080 5681 και 2532 ταυτα 5023 νενεκρωμενου 3499 5772 καθως 2531 τα 3588 αστρα 798 του 3588 ουρανου 3772 τω 3588 πληθει 4128 και 2532 ωσει 5616 αμμος 285 η 3588 παρα 3844 το 3588 χειλος 5491 της 3588 θαλασσης 2281 η 3588 αναριθμητος 382
Vincent's NT Word Studies
12. As good as dead (nenekrwmenou). Comp. Rom. iv. 19. As good as is an addition of A.V. The Greek reads and that a dead man. Comp. nekrwsin deadness applied to Sarah, Rom. iv. 19.
Stars - sand. See Gen. xxii. 17; xxxii. 12.
By the seashore (para to ceilov thv qalasshv). Lit. by the lip of the sea. The phrase N.T.o . Very often in LXX, as Gen. xxii. 17; Exodus xiv. 30: lip of a river, Gen. xli. 17; Exod. vii. 15: of a brook, Deut. ii. 36; iii. 12: of Jordan, 2 Kings ii. 13. So in Class. The vigor thus supernaturally imparted to Abraham does not appear to have exhausted itself in the generation of Isaac; since, according to Gen. xxv. 2, Abraham became by Keturah the father of six sons after the death of Sarah.
