Hebrews 12:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, ”

Hebrews 12:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But ye are come unto Mount Sion - You who are Christians; all who are under the new dispensation. The design is to “contrast” the Christian dispensation with the Jewish. and to show that its exce...
Hebrews 12:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Hebrews 12:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the living God . See Hebrews 3:12 . heavenly . Greek. epouranios. Compare Hebrews 3:1 . Jerusalem . Compare Galatians 1:4 , Gal 1:26. Revelation 3:12 ; Revelation 21:2 ; Revelation 21:10...
Hebrews 12:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

22. Unto mount Sion, etc. He alludes to those prophecies in which God had formerly promised that his Gospel should thence go forth, as in Isaiah 2:1 , and in other places. Then he contra...
Hebrews 12:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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,...
Hebrews 12:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, But ye are come unto mount Sion - In order to enter fully into t...
Hebrews 12:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But ye are come unto mount Sion, &c.— There seems to be throughout this whole period a reference to the manifestation which God made of himself upon mount Sion, as being milder than that upon m...
Hebrews 12:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, Are come, х proseleeluthate ( G4334 )] - 'have come...
Hebrews 12:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Hebrews 12:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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. —...
Hebrews 12:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Hebrews 12:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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!...
Hebrews 12:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hebrews 12:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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

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 h...
Hebrews 12:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But ye are come unto Mount Sion ,.... The Alexandrian copy reads, as in Hebrews 12:18 "for ye are not come"; which may seem to favour that interpretation of this passage, which refers it to the he...
Hebrews 12:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, Ver. 22. But ye are come to Mount ] And the blessings that c...
Hebrews 12:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But ye Who believe in Christ, by your embracing Christianity; are come unto mount Sion Are admitted to the communion of the church of Christ, with its privileges and blessings. Or, ye are come to...
Hebrews 12:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Hebrews 12:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nature of the Christian Economy. A. D. 62. 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might...
Hebrews 12:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Spirit now adds the privilege of Christians in the better state to which they have access by the gospel dispensation, Hebrews 12:22-24 ; Ye have left those hinderances and disadvantages instan...
Hebrews 12:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 ga...
Hebrews 12:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 12:22 . Mount Sion. —The spiritual or heavenly mount. Not Jerusalem, but what is represented by Jerusalem. “The mountain and city of a living God.” Innumer...
Hebrews 12:22 - Scofield Reference Notes

angels ( See Scofield) - ( Hebrews 1:4 ).
Hebrews 12:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
Hebrews 12:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 12:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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,...
Hebrews 12:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Hebrews 12:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The covenant of fear contrasted with that of grace:
Hebrews 12:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 1:9 ; 2 Kings 19:4 ; Daniel 6:26 ; Daniel 7:10 ; Deuteronomy 33:2 ; Deuteronomy 5:26 ; Galatians 4:26 ; Hebrews 10:31 ; Hebrews 13:14 ; Hebrews 3:12 ; Hebrews 9:14 ; Hosea...
Hebrews 12:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But ye — Who believe in Christ. Are come — The apostle does not here speak of their coming to the church militant, but of that glorious privilege of New Testament believers, their communion with th...

Hebrews 12:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hebrews 12:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Hebrews 12:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hebrews 12:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hebrews 12:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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

Hebrews 12:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hebrews 12:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hebrews 12:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hebrews 12:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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

Hebrews 12:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hebrews 12:22 - Scofield Reference Notes

Hebrews 12:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Hebrews 12:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hebrews 12:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hebrews 12:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hebrews 12:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hebrews 12:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 12:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes