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The Terror of the Law
Commentators explain that the scene at Mount Sinai was terrifying. The command that even an animal touching the mountain must be killed illustrates the immense gap between a holy God and sinful humanity under the Old Covenant. This wasn't just about the rules themselves, but the overwhelming and fearful manner in which God's presence was revealed, causing the people to fear for their lives.
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 12:20
18th Century
Theologian
For they could not endure that which was commanded. They could not sustain the awe produced by the fact that God uttered his commands hims…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 12:20
For they could not endure (ουκ εφερον γαρ). Imperfect active of φερω, "for they were not enduring (bearing)."
That …
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 12:20
19th Century
Bishop
There is no sufficient reason for enclosing this verse and the next in parentheses.
And if so much as.—Better, If even a…
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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 12:20
The fearfulness of the giving of the law on Sinai is brought out with reference to one of the commands laid on the people, namely, that neither hum…
John Gill
On Hebrews 12:20
17th Century
Pastor
For they could not endure that which was commanded In the law; not that they disliked and despised the law, as unregenera…
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…