Now follows an exhortation which contains, first, and encouragement drawn from the gracious character of the Christian dispensation, as contrasted with the severity of the Mosaic law; secondly, a warning against apostasy under such a glorious dispensation, in view of its greater guilt and severer punishment.

The mount; Sinai and the terrors which surrounded it at the giving of the law. Exodus 19:9-25; Exodus 20:1-22. Here, as in Galatians 4:24-25, Sinai represents the whole Mosaic economy.

That might be touched; the reference is not merely to its material nature, but to the peril of touching it. Verse Hebrews 12:20.

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