Hebrews 12:25-27
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:18-29
There follows now, both for encouragement and for warning, a grand contrast between the Mosaic and Christian dispensations, founded on the phenomena that accompanied the giving of the Law. To Mount Sinai, with its repelling terrors, is opposed an ideal picture of Mount Zion and the heavenly Jerusalem, expressive of the communion of saints in Christ. And then at Hebrews 12:25 (as previously in Hebrews 10:1-39 ) the tone of encouragement changes again to one of warning, the very excess of... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:25
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not, refusing him that spake (rather, warned ; the word here used is not λαλοῦντα , as before, but χρηματίζοντα, expressive of a Divine admonition or warning. In the passive it is translated "warned of God," "admonished of God," Matthew 2:12 , Matthew 2:22 ; Hebrews 8:5 ; Hebrews 11:7 ; of. Acts 10:22 , ἐχρηματίσθη ὑπὸ ἀγγέλου ἁγίου ) on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:25-29
The final appeal. The body of the Epistle seems to conclude with these verses, Hebrews 13:1-25 . being of the nature of a postscript. The solemn warning which they utter breaks forth abruptly. It drops like a thunderbolt out of the sunny sky of Zion. I. OUR NEW TESTAMENT PRIVILEGES . 1. God speaks to us from heaven. ( Hebrews 13:25 ) At Sinai, and while the Jewish dispensation lasted, God spoke as it were "on earth," by an earthly mediator, Moses; and largely by means... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:26
Whose voice then shook the earth (see Exodus 19:18 , "The whole mount quaked greatly," though there the LXX . has λαός instead of ὄρος : but of. 5:1-31 ., "The earth trembled," and Psalms 114:7 , "Tremble, thou earth," etc., with reference to the phenomena at Sinai; also Habakkuk 3:6 , Habakkuk 3:10 ): but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. The prophecy referred to is Haggai 2:6 , Haggai 2:7 , "Yet once, it is a... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:27
The purpose of the shakings. This chapter, which has been full of comforting elements, rises to the highest kind of comfort at the close—that to be drawn by the believing heart from the conviction that stable good is coming out of all present vicissitudes. Terrible as was the shaking at Sinai, that only affected an infinitesimal part of the crust of the earth for a short time. There remains a far more terrible and searching experience. The shaking at Sinai was only a sign of Jehovah's... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 12:25
See that ye refuse not - That you do not reject or disregard.Him that speaketh - That is, in the gospel. Do not turn away from him who has addressed you in the new dispensation, and called you to obey and serve him. The meaning is, that God had addressed “them” in the gospel as really as he had done the Hebrews on Mount Sinai, and that there was as much to be dreaded in disregarding his voice now as there was then. He does not speak, indeed, amidst lightnings, and thunders, and clouds, but he... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 12:26
Whose voice then shook the earth - When he spake at Mount Sinai. The meaning is, that the mountain and the region around quaked; Exodus 19:18. The “voice” here referred to is that of God speaking from the holy mount.But now hath he promised, saying - The words here quoted are taken from Haggai 2:6, where they refer to the changes which would take place under the Messiah. The meaning is, that there would be great revolutions in his coming, “as if” the universe were shaken to its center. The... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 12:27
And this word, Yet once more - That is, this reference to a great agitation or commotion in some future time. This is designed as an explanation of the prophecy in Haggai, and the idea is, that there would be such agitations that everything which was not fixed on a permanent and immovable basis would be thrown down as in an earthquake. Everything which was temporary in human institutions; everything which was wrong in customs and morals; and everything in the ancient system of religion, which... read more
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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:27
Verse 27 27.And this word, yet once more, etc. The words of the Prophet are these, “Yet a little while;” and he means that the calamity of the people would not be perpetual, but that the Lord would succor them. But the Apostle lays no stress on this expression; he only infers from the shaking of the heaven and the earth that the state of the world was to be changed at the coming of Christ; for things created are subject to decay, but Christ’s kingdom is eternal; then all creatures must needs be... read more