Hebrews 12:22

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…

But ye are come unto Mount Sion - You who are Christians; all who are under the new dispensation. The design is to “contrast” the Christian dispensation with the Jewish. and to show that its…

But ye are come unto mount Sion - In order to enter fully into the apostle's meaning, we must observe,

1. That the Church, which is called here the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and…

Here the apostle goes on to engage the professing Hebrews to perseverance in their Christian course and conflict, and not to relapse again into Judaism. This he does by showing them how much the state…

unto mount Sion The true Sion is the anti-type of all the promises with which the name had been connected (Psa 2:6; Psa 48:2; Psa 78:68-69; Psa 125:1; Joe 2:32; Mic 4:7). Hence the names of Sion and…