...that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," 1 Tim. i, 1 5. "Ye are not come unto the mount that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest. But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood...

...He found no place of repentance." Namely, no change of purpose in the mind of his father. XII. 18. " For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched." This appears to contradict Exodus xix. 12. The Apostle, however, does not speak of it in respect to...

...11 4n Heb. lerpantt. into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, Heb. x. 19. " For," says the apostle, nd laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger,...Manasseh's f Ch. 27. 4.~g Ch. 27. Lh Heb. heavy : 1 and to the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice, they that heard, entreated that...

...doubt again the splendid, divine reality of the spiritual life. Why do we wait for our heaven ? Why ? " Ye are come unto Mount Sion, unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general 166 167 assembly and...

...never can return again. Forget the things that are behind, and reach forward to those that are before, "For ye are not come unto the mount that might be...darkness and tempest;" "But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,...

...excellency, glory, and advantage of the gospel state whereunto they were called. He begins with this. " For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched." This was Mount Sinai, a visible, material mountain ; and the Apostle makes this observation to show...

...fire " WE have often dwelt with thankfulness on the wonderful contrast in Heb. xii., " Ye are not dome unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned...fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest (vers. 18-21); -. . . but ye are come unto Mount Sion, . . . and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant"...

...says, "Look back at that, consider that," and he gives them this tremendous description of it. He says, "For ye are not come unto the mount that might be...fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the...

...again declared in Hebrews 12:18-21. Speaking there too of the glory and liberty of grace, it is said: "For ye are not come unto the mount that might be...fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which voice they that heard intreated that the...

...sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spittt of grace? [Heb 10:29] For ye ore not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blacknest, and dorknest, and tempest, And the sound of a trumprt, and the voice of words; which voice...