And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.