28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:



Ver. 28. A kingdom which cannot be moved] As the mighty monarchies of the world could; for those had their times and their turns, their ruin as well as their rise, so that now they live but by fame only. Not so the kingdom of heaven. You may write upon it the Venetian motto, Nec fluctu, nec flatu movetur; Neither winds nor waves can stir it. We must so endeavour after grace, as if it were to be gotten by labour, and not bestowed by favour; yet must we acknowledge it to be free, as if we had not laboured at all.



With reverence] Gr. With bashfulness, as in God’s holy presence. See Deu_23:14.