Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire — in the strictness of his justice, and purity of his holiness.
For our God is a consuming fire — in the strictness of his justice, and purity of his holiness.
Verse Hebrews 12:29. _FOR OUR GOD_ is _a consuming fire._] The apostle quotes Deuteronomy 4:24, and by doing so he teaches us this great truth, that sin under the Gospel is as abominable in God's sig...
FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE - This is a further reason why we should serve God with profound reverence and unwavering fidelity. The quotation is made from Deuteronomy 4:24. “For the Lord thy God i...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Looking away unto Jesus (Hebrews 12:1)_ 2. The Contradiction of sinners (Hebrews 12:3) 3. Chastened as sons (Hebrews 12:5) 4. Exhortations ...
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 mi...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
See that you do not refuse to listen to his voice; for if they who refused to listen to the one who brought the oracles of God upon earth did not escape, how much more shall we not escape if we turn a...
CONSUMING FIRE. From Deuteronomy 4:24. Compare Exodus 21:17; Psalms 50:3; Psalms 97:3;...
_for our God is a consuming fire_. The reference is to Deuteronomy 4:24, and the special application of the description to one set of circumstances shews that this is not like "God is light" and "God...
CH. 12. An exhortation to faithful endurance (1–3) and a reminder that our earthly sufferings are due to the fatherly chastisement of God (4–13). The need of earnest watchfulness (14–17). Magnificent...
THE MERCY AND SUBLIMITY OF THE NEW COVENANT AS CONTRASTED WITH THE OLD (18–24) ENHANCE THE GUILT AND PERIL OF THE BACKSLIDER (25–29)...
ΚΑῚ ΓΆΡ. Comp. Hebrews 4:2. ΠΥ͂Ρ ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΊΣΚΟΝ. The reference is to Deuteronomy 4:24, and the special application of the description to one set of circumstances shews that this is not—like “God is ligh...
_RUN TILL THE RACE IS OVER -- HEBREWS 12:23-29:_ The great motivation to run is that we are: (a) A part of the general assembly, (b) Members of the church of the firstborn, (c) Part of an immovable ki...
ΠΫ́Ρ (G4442) огонь, ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΊΣΚΟΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΊΣΚΩ (G2654) полностью поглощать. Предложное сочетание перфектно....
DISCOURSE: 2341 GOD TO BE SERVED WITH REVERENTIAL FEAR Hebrews 12:28. _Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence an...
WHEREFORE, WE RECEIVING A KINGDOM, &C.— _"As therefore we have received such an unshaken kingdom,_ which shall never be removed to make way for any different establishment, and which gives to the fait...
D. _Warning. Hebrews 12:25-29_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:25-29 Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused Him that warned them
THE FINAL WARNING (Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29) "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. For our...
For our God is a consuming fire. [ Kai (G2532) gar (G1063)] 'For even;' 'For also:' an additional incentive to diligence. From Deuteronomy 4:24. OUR GOD - in whom we hope, is also to be feare...
22 There is a studied contrast here between the scene presented to the physical eye at Mount Sinai and the prospect of faith in connection with the new covenant. Mount Sinai itself is suggestive of an...
12:29 fire. (h-8) See Deuteronomy 4:24 ; Deuteronomy 9:3 ....
A CONSUMING FIRE] cp. Deuteronomy 4:24. A solemn wraning against presumption....
THE CONTEST. ENDURANCE, HOLINESS, AND DIVINE COMMUNION PROPOSED TO THE SONS OF GOD Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patiently,...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 THE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE 12:1-29 JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE 12:1-3 V1 Like a great cloud, there are a lot of *witnesses round us. Let us then...
A quotation from Deuteronomy 4:24. There these words follow a solemn warning against idolatry. This passage then belongs to the same class as Hebrews 10:27; Hebrews 10:30. (See the Notes.)...
(18-29) The exhortation to faithfulness is most impressively enforced by means of a comparison between the earlier revelation and that which is given in Christ. THE MOUNT THAT MIGHT BE TOUCHED. — It a...
CHAPTER XV. MOUNT ZION. "For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of...
In this paragraph we have the climax of the Epistle. Its doctrine and its exhortation alike culminate here. The great aim of the writer has been to persuade the Hebrews to hearken to the word spoken b...
A final appeal. The readers are warned against being deaf to God's final revelation, for if even the revelation at Sinai could not with impunity be disregarded, much less can the revelation which has...
HEARKEN TO GOD'S LATEST WORD Hebrews 12:18 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 lo...
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 sectio...
REFLECTIONS READER hear what God the Spirit saith to the Churches! Behold, what animating prospects are opened to New Testament saints, in the contemplation of Old Testament believers. And while we ar...
(28) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: (29) For our God is a consuming fire. In relation to...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
29._For our God, etc. _As he had before kindly set before us the grace of God, so he now makes known his severity; and he seems to have borrowed this sentence from the Deuteronomy 4:24 of Deuteronomy....
The epistle now enters on the practical exhortations that flow from its doctrinal instruction, with reference to the dangers peculiar to the Hebrew Christians - instruction suited throughout to inspir...
FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE. Either God personally considered, God in the person of Christ; so the Shechinah, with the Jews, is called a consuming fire n. Christ is truly God, and he is our God an...
The discourse from hence unto the end of the chapter is of great weight, and accompanied with sundry difficulties, of which expositors do scarcely so much as take notice. Hence many different interpre...
For our God _is_ a consuming fire. Ver. 29. _A consuming fire_] viz. To profligate professors, ungirt Christians, Isaiah 33:14. And whereas the apostle saith Our God, he means the God of Christians a...
HEB. 12:29. FOR OUR GOD (IS) A CONSUMING FIRE. "God is a consuming fire" was a sermon preached by Edwards sometime between August and December 1731, before the first awakening in Northampton. A deca...
_Wherefore we_ Who believe in Christ; _receiving_ Or _having received_, through the gospel; _a kingdom which cannot be moved_ A dispensation (frequently called the kingdom of God) which shall never be...
Now follows an exhortation which contains, first, and encouragement drawn from the gracious character of the Christian dispensation, as contrasted with the severity of the Mosaic law; secondly, a warn...
A CONSUMING FIRE; DEUTERONOMY 4:24. He is such to all rejecters of our Lord Jesus Christ, especially those who have apostatized from him. Hence all who have set out in the way to heaven should perseve...
FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE. On the basis of the truths brought out in the last paragraph, of the fact that the Gospel with the fullness of God's mercy in Christ is now preached to the world and h...
The need of reverence and godly fear:...
How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...
18-29 Mount Sinai, on which the Jewish church state was formed, was a mount such as might be touched, though forbidden to be so, a place that could be felt; so the Mosaic dispensation was much in out...
The motive enforcing this duty is no less terrible than that given to Israel under the law, obliging their obedience to that covenant dispensation, DEUTERONOMY 4:23,24: THE LORD THY GOD IS A CONSUMING...
Origen Against Celsus Book VI Nor is the Spirit, in our opinion, a "body," any more than fire is a "body," which God is said to be in the passage, "Our God is a consuming fire."[362] Hippolytus Refu...
Hebrews 12:29 For G2532 G1063 our G2257 God G2316 consuming G2654 (G5723) fire G4442...
‘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 re...
Hebrews 12:29. FOR a fresh reason for the reverence AND THE SERVICE OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE. The description is taken from Deuteronomy 4:22, and the meaning may be, Our God also (as well as the Go...
Hebrews 12:18-29. All these warnings become the more impressive from the fact that our economy is one of much greater privilege than the previous, and that it is the last revelation which God will giv...
A CONSUMING FIRE (πυρ καταναλισκον). From Deuteronomy 4:24. Present active participle of καταναλισκω, old compound verb, here only in the N.T. This verse is to be coupled with Hebrews 10:31....
Hebrews 12:29 I. In the word "fire" there is the idea of purity, which belongs as an essential quality to the element itself. It is not possible to conceive of flame as impure. The material which is b...
Hebrews 12:28 The Religion of the Day. In every age of Christianity, since it was first preached, there has been what may be called a religion of the world, which so far imitates the one true religio...
Hebrews 12:18 Mount Sinai and Mount Zion. In this passage are mentioned seven great and solemn heavenly realities. I. Mount Zion. Mount Sinai represents the law. It manifests the majesty of God abov...
L, 2. _Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race...
CONTENTS: The Father's chastening of believers and its purpose. The difference between living under law and under grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Esau, Moses, Abel. CONCLUSION: Christians have a race...
Hebrews 12:1. _Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses._ Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and...
BECAUSE OUR GOD. Deuteronomy 4:24. Love must be our motivation, not fear of punishment (1 John 4:18). But all who refuse to worship God in a way that pleases Him, have reason to be afraid. This must b...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:28 ACCEPTABLE WORSHIP includes showing REVERENCE AND AWE for God’s holiness. It also includes respecting God as a king and a judge to whom alone worship is due (see the cont...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 12:29. CONSUMING FIRE.— Deuteronomy 4:24. Not intended as in any sense a description of God, but “an anthropomorphic way of expressing His hatred of apostasy an...
EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19, but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1. I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that have been add...
Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12. Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1), What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, wh...
2 Thessalonians 1:8; Daniel 7:9; Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 9:3;...