Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:29
29. For Before this for the Greek has a most pregnant and. Its meaning is, And all this fear is right, for, etc. God… fire Quoted from Deuteronomy 4:24, “For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.” It was a fearful reason given by Moses to warn them from forsaking the old covenant and apostatizing to idolatry; it is now repeated to warn these Hebrews against relapsing into obsolete Judaism. We might place the emphasis on our, and then the meaning would be, that the... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:28
28. Receiving a kingdom That kingdom, once underlying Mosaicism, now underlies Christianity. We stand, therefore, upon an immutable basis. On that basis we may serve God acceptably. Yet not with unmingled joy. A godly fear yet remains, not as to the trueness of our basis, not as to the faithfulness of God, but as to our own faithfulness. Our Hebrews may relapse from the true basis of Christianity to the false foundations of old Judaism from Zion to Sinai. read more