The same word, which is heard in the gospel from heaven, will shake heaven and earth. The blood speaks to God, ver. 24 ; but in ver. 25 there is a speaking, which is made to us : XaXouvr/, ver. 24, is neuter, agreeing with a/^a ; XaXoDvra is masculine. The apostle returns to that with which he set out, ch. i. 1. — oux stpvyov, they did not escape) They could not withdraw themselves from hearing, nay, they rushed on their punishment. — -ra^a/r^ <?«//,£ i<o/, ivho refused) ver. 19. — p^/^ar/ £ovra, Him who spake oracles, learn ings, precepts) He means God Himself: ver. 26 at the beginning. ov '^utTg, much more we) namely, shall not escape. — namely, wrj/uarlfyvra, Him who gives oracles, etc., from the heavens. Mount Sinai on earth reached to the lowest region of heaven ; but from the heavens, and therefore from the very heaven of glory, has the Son brought both His blessedness and His preaching, in consequence of which very frequent men tion of the kingdom of the heavens is made in His discourses : and to all this the Father has superadded His testimony : and now in His word (speaking) He represents (presents vividly to us) the shaking of heaven, of which ver. 26. — awoffrpspk/Mvoi, if we turn away) This word signifies greater obstinacy than 7rapa/r?j- odfAwoi, they who refused.
26. Ou Y\ pwri) as being One whose voice. Hereby is explained what kind of speaking that was on earth, and wThat kind of speak ing of oracles, -/jr^aric^oc, this is from the heavens. Therefore the article rbv in ver. 25 does not prevent it from being one and the same person who spoke on earth and who now speaks from heaven. There is however a Mimesis,1 and the feelings of those are expressed who do not acknowledge Him that speaketh. — rw yyv) yr\ sat iff dy, the earth was shaken, Ps. Ixviii. 9, n^V"), and Haggai uses this same word. The psalm mentions, that even the heavens dropped at that time, namely, those near to the mountain ; but Haggai speaks of the whole created (made) heavens. — i/Dv, now) The apostle shows not only what GOD now has promised, but what He is doing (is to do). — s^yy^rai) He hath promised. It is a promise intended to excite the hope of the saints, although the ungodly are terrified at it : therefore this passage contains an admonition entirely evangelical: comp.
1 See Append.