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Your Heavenly Citizenship
The verse reveals that believers are part of the "church of the firstborn," a term commentators associate with all the redeemed who hold a place of honor and privilege. Your name is "enrolled in heaven," which scholars explain means you are registered as a citizen of the heavenly world. This isn't a future hope but a present reality, securing your identity and eternal destiny in God's kingdom.
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Hebrews
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 12:23
18th Century
Theologian
To the general assembly. (See Barnes on Hebrews 12:22).
And church of the firstborn. That is, you are united with the chur…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 12:23
To the general assembly (πανηγυρε). Old word (from πας and αγυρισ, αγειρω). Here only in N.T. Πανηγυριζω occurs in Isa 66:10 for k…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 12:23
19th Century
Bishop
And to God the Judge of all.—The order of the Greek seems to require the rendering, and to a Judge (who is) …
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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 12:23
“The church [GK 1711] of the firstborn” is a difficult expression. Does it mean the angels just spoken of? They are not usually called a “church,” …
John Calvin
On Hebrews 12:23
16th Century
Theologian
The firstborn, etc. He does not call the children of God indiscriminately the firstborn, for Scripture calls many His children who are not…
John Gill
On Hebrews 12:23
17th Century
Pastor
To the general assembly
A "panegyris", the word here used, was a public and solemn assembly of the Greeks, either at their gam…
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…