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A Greater Voice, A Greater Warning
Commentators unanimously highlight the "lesser to greater" argument. If the Israelites faced severe consequences for disobeying God's message delivered on earth at Sinai, the consequences for rejecting the gospel—God's message delivered from heaven through His Son, Jesus—are far more serious. The greater the revelation, the greater the responsibility to listen.
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Hebrews
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 12:25
18th Century
Theologian
See that you refuse not. That is, do not reject or disregard.
Him that speaketh. This refers to him speaking in the gospel…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 12:25
See (βλεπετε). Earnest word as in 3:12. Driving home the whole argument of the Epistle by this powerful contrast between Mount Zio…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 12:25
19th Century
Bishop
Refuse not: In Hebrews 12:19, we have read that the Israelites pleaded that they would no longer hear the voice of God (literally,…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 12:25–28
19th Century
Preacher
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we tur…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 12:25
Several times in this letter Judaism and Christianity have been contrasted, and here the contrast concerns the way God speaks. Some feel there is a…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 12:25
16th Century
Theologian
See that you refuse not him that speaks, and so on. He uses the same verb as before, when he said that the people pleaded that God should …
John Gill
On Hebrews 12:25
17th Century
Pastor
See that you refuse not him that speaks
Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant, whose blood speaks better things th…
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…