To the general assembly (πανηγυρε). Old word (from πας and αγυρισ, αγειρω). Here only in N.T. Πανηγυριζω occurs in Isa 66:10 for k…

To the general assembly. (See Barnes on Hebrews 12:22).

And church of the firstborn. That is, you are united with the chur…

And to God the Judge of all.—The order of the Greek seems to require the rendering, and to a Judge (who is) …

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sou…

“The church [GK 1711] of the firstborn” is a difficult expression. Does it mean the angels just spoken of? They are not usually called a “church,” …

The firstborn, etc. He does not call the children of God indiscriminately the firstborn, for Scripture calls many His children who are not…

To the general assembly
A "panegyris", the word here used, was a public and solemn assembly of the Greeks, either at their gam…

Mount Sinai, on which the Jewish church-state was formed, was a mountain that could be touched (though the people were forbidden to do so)—a place …

Having warned them to avoid the evils of guilt, the Apostle now provides the reason, which is based on a comparison between the Old and New Testame…