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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
What then is the reward of so great a change? What is the recompense? They have not yet received it, but are still waiting; and after thus dying in so great tribulation, they have not yet received it. They gained their victory so many ages ago, and have not yet received their reward. And you who are yet in the conflict, are you vexed? Do you also consider what a thing it is, and how great, that Abraham should be sitting, and the Apostle Paul, waiting till thou hast been perfected, that then they may be able to receive their reward. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Why, he says, are you fainthearted because, being in the struggle, you have not yet received the rewards? All the saints mentioned, although they had already been testified to as having been pleasing through faith, nevertheless had not yet received the heavenly promises. However, some were deemed worthy of earthly promises, like David. But this was not what they sought. That which is in heaven — these are the true promises.
Oecumenius
"And all these." What, he says, do you mourn and become indignant, you who are still in the struggle, if you do not receive the rewards? Yet all those previously mentioned saints, having earned a testimony by faith that pleased God, have not yet obtained the good things promised to the righteous.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
653. – Then when he says, and all these being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise. But that no one might believe that this was due to lack of merit, he gives the reason for that delay: Since God had foreseen something better for us. 654. – He says, therefore: that all these, though well attested by their faith, i.e., by faith they have testimony that they were approved by God: 'For not he that commends himself is approved, but he whom God commends' (2 Cor. …
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