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Whose voice (οὗ ἡ φωνὴ)
Connect, after the parenthesis, with speaketh better, etc., Heb 12:24.
Shook (ἐσάλευσεν)
See on Luk 21:26, and comp. σάλος tossing or swell of the sea, Luk 21:25. See Jdg 5:4; Psa 113:7.
He hath promised (ἐπήγγελται)
See Hag 2:6. The quotation is adapted from lxx, which reads: “Yet once will I shake the heaven and the earth and the sea and the dry land.” The Hebrew for “yet once” reads “yet a little while.” In Haggai's prophecy, he comforts the people for their sorrow that the second temple is so inferior to the first, predicting that Jehovah will move heaven and earth and sea and land, and will fill the house with his glory; and the glory of the latter house shall exceed that of the former. The discipline begun on Sinai will then have its consummation. This shaking of heaven and earth was typified by the material shaking at Sinai. The shaking predicted by the prophet is applied by our writer to the downfall of worldly powers before the kingdom of Christ, Heb 12:28; comp Heb 1:8, and see Zechariah 14.