Text -- Hebrews 11:3 (NET)

11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Heb 11:3

¹ tn Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage.

² tn Grk “by God’s word.”

³ sn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that what is seen did not come into being from things that are visible.”