Daniel Whedon 29. For Before this for the Greek has a most pregnant and. Its meaning is, And all this fear is right, for, etc. God… fire Quoted from Deuteronomy 4:24, “For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.” It was a fearful reason given by Moses to warn them from forsaking the old covenant and apostatizing to idolatry; it is now repeated to warn these Hebrews against relapsing into obsolete Judaism. We might place the emphasis on our, and then the meaning would be, that the... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:29
29. For Before this for the Greek has a most pregnant and. Its meaning is, And all this fear is right, for, etc. God… fire Quoted from Deuteronomy 4:24, “For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.” It was a fearful reason given by Moses to warn them from forsaking the old covenant and apostatizing to idolatry; it is now repeated to warn these Hebrews against relapsing into obsolete Judaism. We might place the emphasis on our, and then the meaning would be, that the... read more