11:1 confidence. The Greek is hupostasis [TG5287, ZG5712], which some read as “substance” or “essence” (as in 1:3), but it is better understood as “confidence” (as in 3:14; see note). “Faith” here is human faith, not the faithfulness of God, and to that extent subjective. What is objective is the object of that faith, the things “we hope for,” things we are confident “will actually happen.” But the parallel term translated as “assurance” is actually “evidence” or “proof” (elenchos [TG1650,