Hebrews 12:18 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

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ASV

For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

KJV

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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Commentary

2 voices

Oecumenius

The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews (550)

There is fire, for this reason, that God may appear more fearsome to those who were delivering the law. "And to darkness and gloom." Darkness and gloom signify the shadow of the Old Testament. For if those were figures, it is evident that until the …

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

For - A strong reason this why they ought the more to regard the whole exhortation drawn from the priesthood of Christ: because both salvation and vengeance are now nearer at hand. Ye are not come to the mountain that could be touched - That was of an earthy, material nature.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The state of the gospel church on mount Zion is more spiritual, rational, and easy. It was a dark dispensation. Upon that mount there were blackness and darkness, and that church-state was covered with dark shadows and types: the gospel state is much more clear and bright.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched - I believe the words ψηλαφωμενῳ ορει should be translated to a palpable or material mountain; for that it was not a mountain that on this occasion might be touched, the history, Exo 19:12, Exo 19:13, shows; and the apostle himself, in Heb 12:20, confirms. It is called here a palpable or material mount, to distinguish it from that spiritual mount Sion, of which the apostle is speaking.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

For--The fact that we are not under the law, but under a higher, and that the last dispensation, the Gospel, with its glorious privileges, is the reason why especially the Hebrew Christians should "look diligently," &c.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Οὐ	Ou	Not	G3756 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
προσεληλύθατε	proselēluthate	you have come to	G4334 →
ψηλαφωμένῳ	psēlaphōmenō	[that] being touched	G5584 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
κεκαυμένῳ	kekaumenō	kindled	G2545 →
πυρὶ	puri	with fire	G4442 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
γνόφῳ	gnophō	to darkness	G1105 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ζόφῳ	zophō	to gloom	G2217 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
θυέλλῃ	thuellē	to storm	G2366 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 20:18
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
leads to
- Exodus 19:16–18
  On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 12:18–19
  For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 24:17
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
leads to
- Hebrews 12:29
  “For our God is a consuming fire.”
- Deuteronomy 4:24
  For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
- Exodus 3:2
  There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
- Deuteronomy 4:36
  He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
Through
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
leads to
- Romans 3:21–22
  But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
- Hebrews 12:18–21
  For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Hebrews

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Hebrews