γῆν ἐσάλευσεν. Exodus 19:18; Judges 5:4; Psalms 114:7.
ἐπήγγελται. “He has promised.” The verb has the sense of the middle voice as in Romans 4:21.
Ἔτι ἅπαξ. “Again, once for all.” The quotation is from Haggai 2:6-7, “yet once, it is a little while” (comp. Hosea 1:4).
καὶ τὸν οὐρανόν. “For the powers of the heavens shall be shaken” (Luke 21:26).
Verse 26. _WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH_] Namely, at the giving of the law on Mount Sinai; and from this it seems that it was the voice of _Jesus_ that then shook the earth, and that it was he who...
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...
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...
SHOOK. Greek. _saleuo._ As Matthew 24:29. ONCE. See Hebrews 6:4. SHAKE. Greek. _seio_. See Haggai 2:6; Haggai 2:7. Occurs:...
_whose voice then shook the earth_ Exodus 19:18; Judges 5:4; Psalms 114:7. _but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more_ Rather, "again, once for all." The quotation is from...
_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...
ΈΣΆΛΕΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΑΛΕΎΩ (G4530) трясти, ΤΌΤΕ (G5119) раньше, в то время. ΈΠΉΓΓΕΛΤΑΙ _perf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΠΑΓΓΈΛΟΜΑΙ (G1861) обещать. _Perf._ обозначает, что обещание все еще в си...
WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH:— It is generally granted by the spiritual commentators, that the person who spoke _on earth,_ and he who spake _from heaven,_ is the same great _Messenger of the cove...
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 PASSING OF JUDAISM (Hebrews 12:26, Hebrews 12:27) It is exceedingly difficult, if not quite impossible, for us to form any adequate conception of the serious obstacles presented to the mind of a...
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. THEN SHOOK - when He gave the law. NOW - under the Gospel. PROMISE...
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...
12:26 saying, (e-12) See Haggai 2:6 ....
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,...
THEN] i.e. at the giving of the Law: see Exodus 19:18. The quotation is from Haggai 2:6, which is here applied as a prediction of the Second Coming, regarded as imminent....
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...
(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...
SHOOK THE EARTH. — Exodus 19:18; Judges 5:4. The terrors of Sinai were, moreover, a type of a more terrible revelation of judgment, when not only shall the earth tremble, but the earth and the heaven...
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...
(14) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, (l) Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. (14) He compares the steadfast majesty of the gospel, with whic...
Whose voice then moved the earth, by such signs and prodigies on Mount Sinai: but now he promiseth, saying by the prophet Aggeus [Haggai]: yet once; and I will move not only the earth, but heaven also...
(25) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: (26) Whos...
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...
26._Whose voice then shook the earth, etc. _Though God shook the earth when he published his Law, yet he shows that he now speaks more gloriously, for he shakes both earth and heaven. He quotes on the...
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...
WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH,.... That is, at the giving of the law on Mount Sinai: Christ was then present; his voice was then heard; which was either the voice of thunder, or the voice of the tr...
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...
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. Ver. 26. _Whose voice then shook, &c._] viz. When he gave the law; what...
HEB. 12:26. WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH: BUT NOW HE HATH PROMISED, SAYING, YET ONCE MORE I SHAKE NOT THE EARTH ONLY, BUT ALSO HEAVEN. _ Blank Bible: _ 26v _whose voice then shook the Earth et...
_Whose voice_ Namely, Christ's, who appeared to Moses at the bush, gave the law, and conducted Israel through the wilderness; see on Exodus 3:2; Isaiah 63:9; 1 Corinthians 10:9; _then shook the earth_...
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...
THEN; when he gave the law at mount Sinai. Exodus 19:18. NOT THE EARTH ONLY, BUT ALSO HEAVEN; HAGGAI 2:6-7, where the words are, "I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land...
WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH; BUT NOW HE HATH PROMISED, SAYING, YET ONCE MORE I SHAKE NOT THE EARTH ONLY, BUT ALSO HEAVEN....
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...
WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH: the sin and punishment of gospel despisers and rejecters, is aggravated by the Person concerned in both. It is that Jesus, the great Angel of the covenant, speaking n...
Tertullian On Monogamy will fall far more heavily and bitterly in the "universal shaking"[111]...
Hebrews 12:26 whose G3739 voice G5456 then G5119 shook G4531 (G5656) earth G1093 but G1161 now G3568 promised...
‘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...
Hebrews 12:26-27. In these verses we have fresh evidence of the accuracy of the views which the writer takes of the Gospel a system that is to supersede Judaism as the prophet foretells, and a fresh g...
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...
THEN SHOOK (εσαλευσεν τοτε). Old verb as in Matthew 11:7.HE HATH PROMISED (επηγγελτα). Perfect middle indicative of επαγγελλω and it still holds. He quotes Haggai 2:6.WILL I MAKE TO TREMBLE (σει...
Hebrews 12:26 The Shaking of Sinai and Calvary. I. That voice of Sinai was a shaking of earthly things. How were nations dispossessed? How were thrones tumbled into the dust? How was the course of hu...
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...
The apostle, having deserted the heroes of the faith, represents them as witnesses of the great race which Christians in all ages have to run. All through the chapter he keeps up the idea of the great...
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...
After giving a long list of the heroes of faith, the apostle adds: Hebrews 12:1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and th...
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...
HIS VOICE. See Hebrews 12:18-19. Compare Exodus 19:18. BUT NOW. The quotation is Haggai 2:6. Many apply this to the Second Coming, but I think _MacKnight_ is right in understanding _the earth_ to be p...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:26 AT THAT TIME. At Mount Sinai (v. Hebrews 12:19)....
_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...
Exodus 19:18; Habakkuk 3:10; Haggai 2:22; Haggai 2:6; Haggai 2:7;...
Whose voice then shook the earth — When he spoke from mount Sinai. But now — With regard to his next speaking. He hath promised — It is a joyful promise to the saints, though dreadful to the wicked. Y...
As if the apostle had said, "The voice of God, at the promulging of the law on mount Sinai, shook the earth; but he promised after this to shake all nations, and that Christ, the expected Messias, the...