Hebrews 12:23

General assembly] a word commonly applied to the Greek festal assemblies, such as at the Olympian Games. Church of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven] so RV. Seeing that human beings are mentioned at the close of the v., these words are best taken as referring to the angels, who were created before man and may be appropriately described as 'first-born': cp. Job 38:7; In this case the word 'church' is used in its original sense of 'convocation,' or 'congregation.'

And to God] whose manifestation is direct and immediate. There is a suggestion of warning in the epithet Judge of all. Just men] i.e. the saints of the OT. dispensation, who are in one sense 'perfected,' though in another they still wait their final consummation of bliss: see Hebrews 11:40.