John Bengel Commentary - Hebrews 12:27 - 12:27

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John Bengel Commentary - Hebrews 12:27 - 12:27


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Heb 12:27. Τῶν σαλευομένων, of those things that are shaken) the heaven and the earth.-τὴν μετάθεσιν, the removing) The same word occurs at Heb 7:12. The antithesis is μείνῃ, should remain. It will be said: When the earth was formerly shaken, no removal took place; how then is a removal now connected with the shaking of the heaven and the earth? Ans. This shaking is total; is final; is promised, and there is therefore an intimation, that better things will succeed,-that is, those things which are not removed, but are immoveable, will succeed those things which are removed. The first was the prelude of the second.-ὡς πεποιημένων, as of those things that are made) The reason why those things, which are said to be shaken, fall under removal, for they are things made formerly by creation, and so made, that they would not remain of themselves, but would be removed; and that subsequently those should only remain which are not removed. So Paul speaks, 2Co 5:1.-ἵνα μείνῃ) that they should remain. For he says μείνῃ, not μένῃ. The imperfect depends on the preterite πεποιημένων, made. Μένω, I remain, is often said of a thing which is left remaining (surviving) when others pass away; and hence also μόνος comes from μένω; 1Co 13:13.-τά μὴ σαλευόμενα, the things which are not shaken) the city of the living GOD, Heb 12:22 : the new heaven and the new earth, Rev 21:1, note.