Hebrews 12:18 (WEB)
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
Fathers and councils · 7
Augustine of Hippo
““The Lord will give strength to His people” (ver. 11).” — editor's note: [This Psalm was referred to Pentecost by the Jews, and to the giving of the law. Heb. xii. 18–21.—C.]
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and Church of the first-born, which are written in heaven.’” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 18–23
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John Chrysostom
“Hebrews xii. 18–24” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Since, if the Jews, when they were to approach “a mountain that burned, and fire, and blackness, and darkness, and tempest;”—or rather when they were not so much as to approach, but both to see and to hear these things from afar;—were commanded for three days before to abstain from…” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 18. [Here the Greek text agrees more closely with that of the received text in Hebrews than with that of the earliest mss.—R.]
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Jerome
“Your opening words echo the humility of Christ who saved men not with thunder and lightning but as a wailing babe in the manger and as a silent sufferer upon the cross.” — editor's note: Cf. Heb. xii. 18.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…and thunders, and darkness, and the smoke of the whole mountain, and the terrible threats that if even a beast touched the mountain it should be stoned, and other like alarms, kept back the rest of the people, for whom it was a great privilege, after careful purification, merely to hear the voice of God.” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 18.
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Leo the Great
“…there were no thick clouds surrounding Him as of old, nor were the people frightened off from approaching the mountain by frightful sounds and lightning, but quietly and freely His discourse reached the ears of those who stood by: that the harshness of the law might give way before the gentleness of grace, and…” — editor's note: Cf. Heb. xii. 18 and foll.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28.