For by this the ancients obtained a testimony.
And all these being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise;
By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,