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whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more will I shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
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Commentators explain that this verse contrasts two divine announcements. The first was at Mount Sinai, where God's voice only 'shook the earth' when giving the Law. The second, quoting the prophet Haggai, is a promise to shake 'not the earth only, but also the heaven.' This highlights that the new covenant in Christ is a far more momentous and universe-altering reality than the old covenant.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Whose voice then shook the earth. This happened when He spoke at Mount Sinai. The meaning is that the mountain and the surrounding region …
Then shook (εσαλευσεν τοτε). Old verb as in Mt 11:7.
He hath promised (επηγγελτα). Perfect middle indicati…
19th Century
Anglican
Shook the earth.—Exodus 19:18–19; Judges 5:4–5. The terrors of Sinai were, moreover, a type of a more terrible reve…
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Baptist
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…
The solemnity of Sinai is recalled. Repeatedly we are told that then the earth shook (Exodus 19:18; Exodus 77:18; 114:4, 7)…
16th Century
Protestant
Whose voice then shook the earth, etc. Though God shook the earth when he published his Law, yet he shows that he now speaks more…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Whose voice then shook the earth That is, at the giving of the law on Mount Sinai: Christ was then present; his voic…
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 …
13th Century
Catholic
After describing the condition of both testaments, the Apostle now argues from this description and does two things: first, he argues; second, he d…
