Hebrews 12:24-29

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Hebrews 12:25

Hebrews REFUSING GOD’S VOICE Heb_12:25 THE writer has finished his great contrast of Judaism and Christianity as typified by the mounts Sinai and Zion. But the scene at the former still haunts his imagination and shapes this solemn warning. The multitude gathered there had shrunk from the divine voice, and ‘entreated that it might not be spoken to them any more.’ So may we do, standing before the better mount of a better revelation. The parallel between the two congregations at the two... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Hebrews 12:18-29

Hearken to God’s Latest Word Hebrews 12:18-29 Sinai rocked with earthquake and burned with fire. None might touch it without incurring the death penalty. How much better our Christian heritage! Not a lonely mountain, but a city and commonwealth of holy souls. Not bands of worshipers gathered from the land of Canaan, but hosts of angels, the spirits of just men; and our blessed Lord Himself. For the blood of animals, the blood of Jesus; for the Old Covenant, the New; for Abel’s death beside... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 12:1-29

After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four sections. In the first two the causes of weakening faith are recognized (verses Heb 12:4-17 ). In the third we have an epitomized statement of the arguments of encouragement (verses Heb 12:18-24 ), and, finally, we have the last appeal and warning (verses Heb 12:25-29 ). Dealing with their suffering,... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 12:22-25

OUR PLACE‘But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and … to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.’ Hebrews 12:22-Lamentations : This ‘place’ requires faith to apprehend it; it requires faith to understand it. ‘Ye are come to the Mount Sion, the city of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem.’ I. Mount Sion must be in a certain sense upon earth.—Because we are the children of the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:22-24

‘But you are come to mount Zion, And to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, And to innumerable hosts (or ‘large numbers, myriads, thousands upon thousands’) of angels in a festal gathering, And to the church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, And to the God of all as Judge, And to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, And to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better than that of Abel.’ But what his readers have come to is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:25

‘See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they escaped not when they refused him who warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven:’ But let them not be misled. It is true that this glory is now theirs if they truly belong to Christ. Yet they must beware. For if they refuse Him Who speaks, Him Who calls them to this glory, they will find Him far more fearsome than the God of Sinai. He spoke to men from Sinai and they did not escape... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:26

‘Whose voice then shook the earth. But now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more will I make to tremble, not the earth only, but also the heaven.” ’ God has spoken and will yet speak again even more terribly. For at Sinai His voice shook the earth (Exodus 19:18), and it trembled before Him. That was terrible for those who experienced it. But now His promise is that He will once again shake the earth, and not only the earth but the heaven also will tremble before Him (see Haggai 2:6). One day... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:27

‘And this word, “Yet once more”, signifies the removing of those things which are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.’ For this ‘yet once more’ (speaking from the time of the prophet) signifies that God was again to finally shake creation once and for all. It was shaken by the coming of Christ and of the Holy Spirit bringing His Kingly Rule among men, for it was through His coming that the house of David would triumph and be made God’s... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:28-29

‘Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.’ At Sinai Israel received a kingdom that could be shaken (Exodus 19:6). It was a kingdom of priests, and it was earthly. But Israel failed in its destiny to be priests to the nations, and as we have seen their priesthood has been superseded. It has passed away as far as God is concerned. And it would soon be gone.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:18-29

Hebrews 12:18-Joel : . The theme of the epistle has been the contrast of the old and the new covenants, and this contrast is now summed up in a splendid closing passage. The first covenant was established on a “ mount that might be touched”— an earthly, material mountain [E. C. Selwyn, in JThS, xii. 134 , suggests pephepsalmenô , “ calcined.”— A. J. G.]— which was encircled with terrible manifestations of fire and darkness and storm. The voice in which the Law was proclaimed struck terror... read more

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