Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel: Hebreeen 11:1

Hebreeen 11:1

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether Christ's birth should have been made known to all?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether it can be demonstrated that God exists?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether the trinity of the divine persons can be known by natural reason?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether it is an article of faith that the world began?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether the ceremonial precepts are figurative?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether the object of faith can be something seen?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether the articles of faith have increased in course of time?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether this is a fitting definition of faith: "Faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not?"

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether faith is the first of the virtues?

Blog, Polumeros kai Polutropos, [], February 27, 2009
Anonymous. "Illustration of Hebrews XI. 1." Methodist Review 4 (1821): 133-35.

In this brief article the author simply argues that the word ὑποστασις must mean "confidence" rather than "substance" in Hebrews 11:1. He says, "surely faith . . . cannot be the substance of those divine realities for which the believer hopes in a future world" (133). Nor is the object of faith in view, since the author is giving a definition of faith itself. The word ὑποστασις is rendered "confidence" in such passages as 2 Corinthians 9:4; 11:17 and Hebrews 3:14, and it makes perfectly good sense to translate it as "confidence" in Hebrews 11:1 as well. This argument seems to me to be quite sound.