Bible Dictionary: Faith: Abel

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Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.
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The Revelation to which the Scripture of the Old Testament Owes ...
... condition of things. We see it in Adam and Eve; especially in Enoch; and
"By faith Abel obtained witness that he was righteous.". ...
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Faith
... Listen to their names: "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice;"
"By faith Enoch was translated;" "By faith Noah built an ark;" "By faith ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/faith.htm

The Meaning of Faith
... Through faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain, and so received the
assurance that he was an upright man, for God approved of his gifts. ...
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Faith the Foundation of all Knowledge.
... "By faith Abel offered to God a fuller sacrifice than Cain, by which he received
testimony that he was righteous, God giving testimony to him respecting his ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter iv faith the foundation of.htm

The Faith of Abraham.
... But we shall not dismiss in silence the faith of Abel, Enoch, and Noah. ... Third,
the faith of Abraham is compared with the faith of Abel. ...
/.../the expositors bible the epistle to the hebrews/chapter xi the faith of.htm

On the Faith.
... diversity of nature, but, just as in the case of Adam and Abel the manhood ... Those,
then, in whom arises firm and unshaken faith in the Gospel, pass from being ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/on the faith.htm

Hebrews xi. 3, 4
... By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
obtained witness [3200] that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily xxii hebrews xi 3.htm

The Significance of Abel, Seth, and Enos to Christ and his Body ...
... lives in hope as long as the city of God, which is begotten by faith in the
resurrection, sojourns in this world. For in these two men, Abel, signifying "grief ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 18 the significance of abel.htm

The Voice of the Blood of Christ
... Cain, "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground," and the
apostle's comment upon that in another place is""By faith Abel offered unto ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the voice of the blood.htm

The Lamb of God in Scripture
... in the sacrifice, as well as in the man bringing it, for the Holy Ghost says little
about the difference of the man, but He says, "By faith Abel offered unto ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 39 1893/the lamb of god in.htm