Hebrews 12:19

Hebrews 12:19

17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was ^arejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

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18 For you have not come¹ to ^athe mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and² darkness and tempest,

19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it ^abegged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.

20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: ^a“And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned¹ or shot with an arrow.”

21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, ^a“I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Unto blackness (gnofw). Dative case of gnofov (late form for earlier dnofov and kin to nefov, cloud), here only in N.T. Quoted here from Exodus 10:22.

Darkness (zofw). Old word, in Homer for the gloom of the world below. In the Symmachus Version of Exodus 10:22, also in Judges 1:6; II Peter 2:4, II Peter 2:15.

Tempest (quellh). Old word from quw (to boil, to rage), a hurricane, here only in N.T. From Exodus 10:22.

The sound of a trumpet (salpiggov hxw). From Exodus 19:16. Exov is an old word (our exo) as in Luke 21:25; Acts 2:2.

The voice of words (fwnh rhmatwn). From Exodus 19:19; Deuteronomy 4:12.

Which voice (hv). Relative referring to fwnh (voice) just before, genitive case with akousantev (heard, aorist active participle).

Intreated (parhthsanto). First aorist middle (indirect) indicative of paraiteomai, old verb, to ask from alongside (Mark 15:6), then to beg away from oneself, to depreciate as here, to decline (Acts 25:11), to excuse (Luke 14:18), to avoid (I Timothy 4:7).

That no word should be spoken unto them (prosteqhnai autoiv logon). First aorist passive infinitive of prostiqhmi, old word to add, here with accusative of general reference (logon), "that no word be added unto them." Some MSS. have here a redundant negative mh with the infinitive because of the negative idea in parhthsanto as in Galatians 5:7.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Hebrews 12:19:**

Luke 14:18
Hebrews 12:22
Hebrews 12:25
1 John 2:22

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