Hebrews 12:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

if. Greek. ean. App-118.

beast. Greek. therion, not zoon.

touch. See Hebrews 11:28.

or thrust through, &c. All the texts omit. No doubt this is because of the complex Ellipsis. In Exodus 19:13 we read, "There shall not. hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live". The work on "Figures of Speech" makes it clear thus: "And if so much as [a man, or]. beast touch the mountain [if. man] he shall be stoned or [if. beast] thrust through with. dart".

Hebrews 12:20

20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: