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From Sinai's Fear to Zion's Welcome
Commentators unanimously highlight the stark contrast between the old and new covenants. The experience at Mount Sinai was terrifying and distant, a mountain that could not be touched. In Christ, believers 'have come' to Mount Zion—a spiritual reality characterized by grace, joy, and bold access to God, not fear.
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 12:22
18th Century
Theologian
But you are come to Mount Sion. You who are Christians; all who are under the new dispensation. The design is to contrast the Christian di…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 12:22
But (αλλα). Sharp contrast to verse 18 with same form προσεληλυθατε.
Unto Mount Zion (Σιων ορε). Dative ca…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 12:22
19th Century
Bishop
Unto mount Sion.—Literally (and in these difficult verses it is unusually important to follow the literal rendering of the Greek),…
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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 12:22
“But” is a strong word that introduces a marked contrast. It is not a Sinai-type experience that has befallen Christians. They “have come” to Mount…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 12:22
16th Century
Theologian
Unto mount Sion, etc. He alludes to those prophecies in which God had formerly promised that his Gospel should go forth from ther…
John Gill
On Hebrews 12:22
17th Century
Pastor
But you are come to Mount Sion
The Alexandrian copy reads, as in (Hebrews 12:18) "for you are not come";…
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…