Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:2

2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.

This is a proof of the first part of Faith's description, that it is the substance of things hoped for: For all the Fathers were testified of to have this work of Faith in realizing their Hopes. [non-Latin text not transcribed] were the Fathers and Ancestors of these Hebrews run up through their Genealogies to Adam, the special Instances of whom follow. These received a Testimony or Witness, truly and fully from God himself in some signal Acceptance of them, eminent Appearances and Providences to them, with a Scripture-Record of them, that through this Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ they walked with, worshipped and pleased God, and were saved by him even as these Christians, and all this by the same Grace of Faith, Acts 1[illegible: 1 letter].17. which wrought kindly in them, and made the invisible things of God to subsist with them.

Marginal references: Ver. 39.