Why did not these ancient worthies receive the promise?

Answer

"And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided
some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." Heb. 11: 39,40.
 


In what does God delight?
In whom is the gift?
How complete is to be the fall of modern Babylon?
How does Paul again express this same truth?
22. What did Augustine, the father of this theocratical or church-and-state theory, teach concerning it?
Who notes the groans of the prisoner?
How readily will their wants be supplied?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle