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( See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4).
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 dispe...
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. Th...
the living God . See Hebrews 3:12 . heavenly . Greek. epouranios. Compare Hebrews 3:1 . Jerusalem . Compare Galatians 1:4 , Gal 1:26. Reve...
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...
DISCOURSE: 2339 THE TRANSCENDENT EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 12:18-25 . Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touche...
DISCOURSE: 2340 ABEL’S SACRIFICE AND CHRIST’S COMPARED Hebrews 12:22 ; Hebrews 12:24 . Ye are come ……to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh...
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 com...
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...
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 co...
The Contest. Endurance, Holiness, and Divine Communion proposed to the Sons of God Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who...
Mount Sion ] the heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, the eternal and ideal sphere, the abode of God and the angels and the spirits of the OT. saints.
(18-29) The exhortation to faithfulness is most impressively enforced by means of a comparison between the earlier revelation and that which is given...
Unto mount Sion. — Literally (and in these difficult verses it is unusually important to follow the literal rendering of the Greek), Ye are come u...
(22-24) “What it was to which Israel in the time of the Old Covenant drew nigh, we have now heard. Their drawing nigh was at the same time a standing...
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...
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 deat...
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...
(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...
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...
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 interpr...
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. B...
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, wit...
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 responsibil...
Nature of the Christian Economy. A. D. 62. ...
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 ha...
‘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, t...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 12:22 . Mount Sion. —The spiritual or heavenly mount. Not Jerusalem, but what is represented by Jerusalem....
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...
Hebrews 12:18-29 Mount Sinai and Mount Zion. In this passage are mentioned seven great and solemn heavenly realities. I. Mount Zion. Mount Sinai...
Hebrews 12:18 , Hebrews 12:22 Sinai and Sion. I. The points of contrast in the text are, that Sinai was the emblem of a sensuous, and Sion of...
Hebrews 12:22-23 Where and with whom faith lives. I. Where faith lives. (1) The life of a man who has truly laid hold of Jesus Christ, and so is...
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 th...
After giving a long list of the heroes of faith, the apostle adds: Hebrews 12:1-3 . Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a c...
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 ea...
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...
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 wit...
The covenant of fear contrasted with that of grace:
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,
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 ; Hebr...
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 o...
22 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,