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This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
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The Great Sifting
Commentators explain that the "shaking" described in this verse refers to God's process of removing everything temporary. This includes the ceremonial aspects of the Old Covenant, which were "made" to be replaced, as well as all worldly systems and false ideas. This divine sifting clears the way for what is truly permanent.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And this word, Yet once more. That is, this reference to a great agitation or commotion in some future time. This is designed as an explan…
And this word (το δε). He uses the article to point out "ετ απαξ" which he explains (δηλο, signifies, present active indicative of…
19th Century
Anglican
This word, Yet once more, is equivalent to once more only; and the words “once more only will I move the heaven and the earth” mu…
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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 writer picks out the expression “once more” to point out the decisive significance of the things of which he is writing. There is an air of fin…
16th Century
Protestant
And this word, yet once more, etc. The words of the Prophet are these, Yet a little while; and he means that the calamit…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And this word yet once more Or as it is in (Haggai 2:6) "yet once it is a little while"; which suggests,…
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…
