“ And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) ”
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said ... - This is not recorded in the account of the giving of the Law in Exodus, and it has been made a question on what authority the apostle made thi...
And so terrible was the (i) sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) (i) The shape and form which he saw, which was no counterfeit and forged shape, but a true one.
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 m...
terrible . Greek. phoberos. See Hebrews 10:27 ; Hebrews 10:31 . sight . spectacle. Greek. phantazo. Only here. See Acts 25:23 . Moses . See Hebrews 3:2 . exceedingly fear and quake . a...
DISCOURSE: 2339 THE TRANSCENDENT EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 12:18-25 . Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness,...
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
And so terrible was the sight, &c.— "The appearance was so dreadful that Moses himself,who was happy in such unparalleled degrees of the divine favour, and accustomed to converse with God in so...
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) The sight, х to ( G3588 ) fantazomenon ( G5324 )] - the vision of God's majesty. Quake , х entromo...
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 patien...
(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. —...
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 voic...
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!...
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 secti...
(18) For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, (19) And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which...
And so terrible was the sight ,.... Of the smoke, fire, and lightnings; or of God himself, who descended on the mount; with which agrees the Arabic version, which renders the words, "and so terrible...
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) Ver. 21. Moses said, I exceedingly ] This Paul might have by tradition, or rather by revelation, unless he gathere...
For they could not endure that which was commanded That is, either, 1st, The law itself, so strict and holy, and promulged amidst such terrors seen and heard: or, 2d, The sense is, they could not b...
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...
Nature of the Christian Economy. A. D. 62. 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might...
It must needs be a dreadful, fearful, horrid, and astonishing apparition, and exhibition of the great Lawgiver here, that such a person as Moses, so sanctified by him, so favoured with familiarity wi...
‘And so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake.' But the experience was so dramatic that even Moses found it hard to bear. We tend to forget that Moses was human t...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 12:18 . Might be touched. —A figure of speech for a “material” thing. “A palpable and enkindled fire.” For the terrors accompanying the giving of the law on...
Hebrews 12:18-25 The Blessedness of the Christian Life. A Christian Jew is writing to Christian Jews, who stand in some danger of falling back to the religion they had abandoned. This writer is h...
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 grea...
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,...
EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19 , but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1-58 . I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that...
The covenant of fear contrasted with that of grace:
Daniel 10:17 ; Daniel 10:8 ; Exodus 19:16 ; Exodus 19:19 ; Isaiah 6:3-5 ; Psalms 119:120 ; Revelation 1:17
Even Moses — Though admitted to so near an intercourse with God, who "spake to him as a man speaketh to his friend." At other times he acted as a mediator between God and the people. But while the...