us, and from heaven to us, overcomes this violent cry of the blood concealed by Cain. Comp. xpefrrcvu, better things, ch. vi. 9.
Now let us take a general survey of the persons, places, and things, to which Christians have come.
There is A. Mount Zion,
B. And the city of the living GOD, the heavenly
Jerusalem.
C. a. And ten thousands ;
a. The general assembly of angels,
j8. And the church of the first-born written in
heaven : b. And GOD the Judge of all :
D. c. And the spirits of just men made perfect :
d. And Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament,
e. And the blood of sprinkling speaking a better
thing than Abel.
This enumeration is not only not confused, but its arrange ment has been well considered. A and D, B and C, refer to each other by Chiasmus. In "B and C the economy of GOD, more widely extended, is described, and that too in such a way in particular as will most gloriously appear at the last day, which is now present to our faith, ver. 26, ch. xi. 1 ; and so it is con sidered by Paul, Rom. ii. 16, note : in A and D, the internal economy of Christ, belonging to the New Testament, so far as it meantime prevails, as Paul testifies, 1 Cor. xv. 24. On the difference and connection of each economy, comp. annot. ult. Exeg. Germ, ad Rev. xiv. 10. A is put before B in the natural order, because, in Rev. xiv. and xxi., Mount Zion is seen before the new Jerusalem ; hence D and C, and the particular points in D and C, come to be considered in retrograde order (on which comp. ch. xi. 33, note).
25. BAfe-rrsrs, see) An admonition which is sharpened by the omission of the particle, ouv, then. — ^ ^apa/r^/j^s, that ye refuse not) through unbelief. — rbv XaXouvra, Him that speaketh) namely, GOD ; whose word, now present, is of such a kind that it is (as to be) the prelude of the last ' shaking' of all things (ver. 27)