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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
In what way does he say at the end of the epistle that they "saw them only from afar" and "rejoiced" at the fulfillment of the promises (Heb. 11:13), yet now says that Abraham "received what was promised"? He is not speaking of the same thing here and there; rather, here he speaks of earthly promises, which Abraham received after a long time, while there he speaks of heavenly ones, which he had not yet received. …
Oecumenius
"And so, having patiently." You see that the patience of Abraham accomplished something? He said that by being patient he obtained the promise, in order to show the great power of patience, and that it was not the promise alone that accomplished everything; but also patience. "he attained the promise." And yet in the end, it says that all these, having seen them from afar and embraced them, did not receive the promises, so that they would not be made perfect apart from us. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
316. – The effect of the promise was that Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise. For patient endurance consists not only in doing something great, but also in waiting a long time. But Abraham had the promise, although he never possessed the pace of a foot of land, as it says in Ac (7:5); furthermore, even until his old age he possessed no offspring. But he still kept his hope: 'Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labor and patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord' (Jas. …
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