“"They were stoned," like Moses and Naboth; "sawn in two," like Zechariah and Isaiah; "tempted" in different manners, like Job; and "killed with the sword" like Micah, Uriah and John. "They went about in the skins of sheep and goats," like Elijah and Elisha. "They were destitute, afflicted and ill-treated—of whom the w…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS
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38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
— Hebrews 11:38 —
39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.