Hebrews 12:26-28 NIV

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 12:25-29

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:28

The kingdom which cannot be moved. "We receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved." "A kingdom which cannot be moved." Is there such a thing? What is it? Where is it? The great empires of antiquity—Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Rome—are all gone. Where is the immovable kingdom? Is there anything that cannot be changed, shaken, and destroyed? Physical comforts are torn away from their possessors. Health is not immovable. Wealth is not a lasting kingdom. Property is "unstable as water." What is the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:28

The unshaken kingdom. I. THE CARNAL HOPES OF ISRAEL . We know well from the Gospels what notions the disciples had of a visible kingdom, with its center of power and glory in the earthly Jerusalem. It was a dominating thought among them down to the very departure of their master. They greeted him, getting ready for his ascension, with the inquiry whether he was about to restore the kingdom to Israel; And we may well suppose that among all the Hebrew Christians this hope... 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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 12:28

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved - We who are Christians. We pertain to a kingdom that is permanent and unchanging. The meaning is, that the kingdom of the Redeemer is never to pass away. It is not like the Jewish dispensation, to give place to another, nor is there any power that can destroy it; see the notes on Matthew 16:18. It has now endured for eighteen hundred years, amidst all the revolutions on earth, and in spite of all the attempts which have been made to... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:18-29

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:26

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 12:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 12:27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 12:28

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