What does Hebrews 12:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are writtenf in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,"
Verse 23. _TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY_] πανηγυρει. This word is joined to the preceding by some of the best MSS., and is quoted in connection by several of the fathers: _Ye are come-to the general_ _asse...
TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - see the notes on Hebrews 12:22. AND CHURCH OF THE FIRST-BORN - That is, you are united with the church of the first-born. They who were first-born among the Hebrews enjoyed s...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Looking away unto Jesus (Hebrews 12:1)_ 2. The Contradiction of sinners (Hebrews 12:3) 3. Chastened as sons (Hebrews 12:5) 4. Exhortations (Hebrews 12:12) 5. The end of faith (Heb...
The theme of the epistle has been the contrast of the old and the new covenants, and this contrast is now summed up in a splendid closing passage. The first covenant was established on a mount that mi...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Greek. _paneguris._ Only here. CHURCH. App-186. FIRSTBORN. firstborn ones. Greek. _prototokos._ See Hebrews 11:28. WRITTEN. Greek. _apographo._ Only here and Luke 2:1; Luke 2:3; L...
_to the general assembly_ The word _Pançguris_means a general festive assembly, as in Song of Solomon 6:13 (LXX.). It has been questioned whether both clauses refer to Angels "To myriads of Angels, a...
CH. 12. An exhortation to faithful endurance (1–3) and a reminder that our earthly sufferings are due to the fatherly chastisement of God (4–13). The need of earnest watchfulness (14–17). Magnificent...
_RUN TILL THE RACE IS OVER -- HEBREWS 12:23-29:_ The great motivation to run is that we are: (a) A part of the general assembly, (b) Members of the church of the firstborn, (c) Part of an immovable ki...
ΠΡΩΤΌΤΟΚΟΣ (G4416) первенец (TDNT). Это первенцы, которые обладают правами перворожденных, благодаря их союзу с Христом (Kent), ΑΠΟΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΈΝΩΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΆΠΟΓΡΆΦΩ (G583) записывать, включ...
DISCOURSE: 2339 THE TRANSCENDENT EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 12:18. Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkne...
TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY— The word Πανηγυρις properly signifies a stated convention upon some joyful and festive occasion; particularly it is applied to the concourse at the Olympic games: in which vie...
_The mercy of the new. Hebrews 12:22-24_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:22-24 Hebrews 12:22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts...
THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRISTIANITY (Hebrews 12:22-24) "But ye are come unto" etc. (verse 22). These words do not, in fact cannot, mean, that in some mystical sense believers are "in spirit" projected in...
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, WRITTEN IN HEAVEN - enrolled as citizens...
22 There is a studied contrast here between the scene presented to the physical eye at Mount Sinai and the prospect of faith in connection with the new covenant. Mount Sinai itself is suggestive of an...
12:23 perfect; (b-30) The words 'made perfect' relate to 'just men,' not to 'spirits.' Compare ch. 11.40...
THE CONTEST. ENDURANCE, HOLINESS, AND DIVINE COMMUNION PROPOSED TO THE SONS OF GOD Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patiently,...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 THE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE 12:1-29 JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE 12:1-3 V1 Like a great cloud, there are a lot of *witnesses round us. Let us then...
(18-29) The exhortation to faithfulness is most impressively enforced by means of a comparison between the earlier revelation and that which is given in Christ. THE MOUNT THAT MIGHT BE TOUCHED. — It a...
CHAPTER XV. MOUNT ZION. "For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of...
In this paragraph we have the climax of the Epistle. Its doctrine and its exhortation alike culminate here. The great aim of the writer has been to persuade the Hebrews to hearken to the word spoken b...
HEARKEN TO GOD'S LATEST WORD Hebrews 12:18 Sinai rocked with earthquake and burned with fire. None might touch it without incurring the death penalty. How much better our Christian heritage! Not a l...
After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four sectio...
BETTER ACCESS TO GOD THAN WAS AT SINAI So, a careful watch should be kept to avoid the kind of attitude that would cause one to give up his birthright. This is especially true since we labor under a n...
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made (k) perfect, (k) So he calls them that are taken up...
(18) For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, (19) And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
_OUR PLACE_ ‘But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and … to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not hi...
23._The firstborn, etc. _He does not call the children of God indiscriminately the firstborn, for the Scripture calls many his children who are not of this number; but for the sake of honor he adorns...
The epistle now enters on the practical exhortations that flow from its doctrinal instruction, with reference to the dangers peculiar to the Hebrew Christians - instruction suited throughout to inspir...
TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,.... A "panegyris", the word here used, was a public and solemn assembly of the Greeks, either at their games, or feasts, or fairs, or on religious accounts; and signifies a la...
The discourse from hence unto the end of the chapter is of great weight, and accompanied with sundry difficulties, of which expositors do scarcely so much as take notice. Hence many different interpre...
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, Ver. 23. _To the general assembly_] Or publ...
HEB. 12:23. TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN, AND TO GOD THE JUDGE OF ALL, AND TO THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN MADE PERFECT, _ Blank Bible: _ [and 23 - _F...
_To the general assembly_ To the Christian Church, consisting of the whole number of true believers spread over all the world. The word πανηγυρις, here used, properly signifies a stated convention, up...
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 warn...
The covenant of fear contrasted with that of grace:...
How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...
WRITTEN: Or, enrolled...
18-29 Mount Sinai, on which the Jewish church state was formed, was a mount such as might be touched, though forbidden to be so, a place that could be felt; so the Mosaic dispensation was much in out...
TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: other inhabitants of this heavenly city and polity with whom believers are incorporated, are such, into whose communion they have admittance here below, viz. to the catholic a...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II and "an holy nation."[140]...
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‘But you are come to mount Zion, And to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, And to innumerable hosts (or ‘large numbers, myriads, thousands upon thousands') of angels in a festal gat...
Hebrews 12:18-29. All these warnings become the more impressive from the fact that our economy is one of much greater privilege than the previous, and that it is the last revelation which God will giv...
TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (πανηγυρε). Old word (from πας and αγυρισ, αγειρω). Here only in N.T. Πανηγυριζω occurs in Isaiah 66:10 for keeping a festal holiday. Possibly to be connected with αγγελων,...
CHURCH Church (true), Summary: The true church, composed of the whole number of regenerate persons from Pentecost to the first resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:52) united together and to Christ by the...
Hebrews 12:18 The Blessedness of the Christian Life. A Christian Jew is writing to Christian Jews, who stand in some danger of falling back to the religion they had abandoned. This writer is here, a...
The apostle, having deserted the heroes of the faith, represents them as witnesses of the great race which Christians in all ages have to run. All through the chapter he keeps up the idea of the great...
CONTENTS: The Father's chastening of believers and its purpose. The difference between living under law and under grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Esau, Moses, Abel. CONCLUSION: Christians have a rac...
Hebrews 12:1. _Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses._ Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and...
OF GOD'S OLDEST SONS. [The NIV adopts the general view of Theophylact, while the TEV follows Alford, Delitzsch, et. al.] PROTOTOKON is plural = _oldest sons._ Among the Jews, the oldest son got the la...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:23 ASSEMBLY OF THE FIRSTBORN. “Firstborn” is plural in Greek. Jesus was previously called _the_ firstborn Son (Hebrews 1:6). Here his followers are also granted an inheritan...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 12:22. MOUNT SION.—The spiritual or heavenly mount. Not Jerusalem, but what is represented by Jerusalem. “The mountain and city of a living God.” INNUMERABLE C...
EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19, but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1. I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that have been ad...
Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12. Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1), What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, w...
1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 Peter 2:23; 1 Timothy 3:5; 2 Corinthians 5:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; Acts 20:28; Colossians 1:12
To the general assembly — The word properly signifies a stated convention on some festival occasion. And church — The whole body of true believers, whether on earth or in paradise. Of the first — born...