Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
35. Women received, etc. He had already mentioned instances in which God had remunerated the faith of his servants, he now refers to examples of a different kind, — that saints, reduced to extreme miseries, struggled by faith so as to persevere invincible even to death.
The apostle having given us a classis of many eminent believers, whose names are mentioned and the particular trials and actings of their faith recorded, now concludes his narrative with a more summary account of another set of believers, where the particular acts are not ascribed to particular persons by name, but left to be applied by those who are well acquainted with the sacred...
Commenting on Hebrews 11:32-40
They were stoned,.... As Naboth, by the order of Ahab, Kg1 21:13, Zachariah in the court of the Lord's house; Ch2 24:21 and the character of Jerusalem is, that she stoned the prophets that were sent unto her, Mat 23:37. They were sawn asunder; to which there seems to be an allusion in Mat 24:51.