It was for this that the men of old won their record.
They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain.
It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.
Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets,