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Unto blackne (γνοφω). Dative case of γνοφος (late form for earlier δνοφος and kin to νεφος, cloud), here only in N.T. Quoted here …
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes
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 …
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
See Exodus 19:19 (the voice of the trumpet), Deuteronomy 4:12 (the voice of the words).
Intreated.
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
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
Expositor'sBible Commentary
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
JohnCalvin
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
JohnGill
And the sound of a trumpet
(Exodus 19:16Exodus 19:19) (20:18) , which made it still more awf…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
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 …
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
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…
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A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson