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The Terrifying Voice of God
Commentators unanimously highlight that the "sound of a trumpet" and the "voice of words" at Mount Sinai were not comforting but terrifying. The experience was so overwhelming that the Israelites begged for it to stop, fearing for their lives. This illustrates the awesome and unapproachable nature of God's holiness under the Old Covenant law.
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Hebrews
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 12:19
18th Century
Theologian
And the voice of a trumpet (Exodus 19:19). The sound of the trumpet amid the tempest was suited to increase the terror of the …
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 12:19
Unto blackness (γνοφω). Dative case of γνοφος (late form for earlier δνοφος and kin to νεφος, cloud), here only in N.T. Quoted her…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 12:19
19th Century
Bishop
See Exodus 19:19 (the voice of the trumpet), Deuteronomy 4:12 (the voice of the words).
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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 12:19
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 12:19
16th Century
Theologian
Those who heard entreated, etc. This is the second clause, in which he shows that the Law was very different from the Gospel. For…
John Gill
On Hebrews 12:19
17th Century
Pastor
And the sound of a trumpet
(Exodus 19:16Exodus 19:19) (20:18) , which made it still more awf…
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…