For this reason, the ancients were given testimony.
In many places and in many ways, in past times, God spoke to the fathers through the Prophets;
And all these, having been proven by the testimony of faith, did not receive the Promise.
By faith, Abel offered to God a much better sacrifice than that of Cain, through which he obtained testimony that he was just, in that God offered testimony to his gifts. And through that sacrifice, he still speaks to us, though he is dead.