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By faith we understand that the worlds[a] were set in order at God’s command,[b] so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:3 tn Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage.
  2. Hebrews 11:3 tn Grk “by God’s word.”
  3. Hebrews 11:3 sn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that what is seen did not come into being from things that are visible.”

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command,(A) so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

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