Then shook (εσαλευσεν τοτε). Old verb as in Mt 11:7.

He hath promised (επηγγελτα). Perfect middle indicati…

Whose voice then shook the earth. This happened when He spoke at Mount Sinai. The meaning is that the mountain and the surrounding region …

Shook the earth.—Exodus 19:18–19; Judges 5:4–5. The terrors of Sinai were, moreover, a type of a more terrible reve…

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, to the g…

The solemnity of Sinai is recalled. Repeatedly we are told that then the earth shook (Exodus 19:18; Exodus 77:18; 114:4, 7)…

Whose voice then shook the earth, etc. Though God shook the earth when he published his Law, yet he shows that he now speaks more…

Whose voice then shook the earth
That is, at the giving of the law on Mount Sinai: Christ was then present; his voic…

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 …

After describing the condition of both testaments, the Apostle now argues from this description and does two things: first, he argues; second, he d…