“For indeed, even the apostles have not yet received their joy, but they also wait that I may be a partaker of their joy. For the saints, when they leave this place, do not immediately obtain the whole rewards of their merits. They also wait for us, though we delay, even though we remain. For they do not have perfect d…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 7.2.8-9
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39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
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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;
38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
— Hebrews 11:39 —
40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.