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A Tale of Two Covenants
Commentators explain this verse begins a powerful contrast. The Old Covenant, given at Mount Sinai, was marked by terrifying physical signs like fire and darkness, designed to inspire awe and keep people at a distance. This sets the stage for the superior New Covenant, which is not based on fear but on a gracious invitation to draw near to God through Christ.
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Hebrews
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 12:18
18th Century
Theologian
For you are not come. To enforce the considerations already urged, the apostle introduces this sublime comparison between the old and new …
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 12:18
Ye are not come (ου προσεληλυθατε). Perfect active indicative of προσερχομα. There is no word here in the Greek for "a mount" like…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 12:18
19th Century
Bishop
The exhortation to faithfulness is most impressively reinforced through a comparison between the earlier revelation and that which is given in Chri…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 12:18–24
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 12:18
Though the word “mountain” is not in the original Greek, there is no doubt that the events on Sinai are in mind. The writer chooses to refer to wha…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 12:18
16th Century
Theologian
For you are not come, etc. He now advances a new argument, for he proclaims the greatness of the grace made known by the Gospel, …
John Gill
On Hebrews 12:18
17th Century
Pastor
For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched ,
&c.] The design of the apostle in the following words is, in gener…
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 12:18–29
17th Century
Minister
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 plac…