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Heb_12:26. Like as the author has stated the fact, Heb_12:25, as a sign of the inferiority of Judaism to Christianity, that God in connection with the former was One ἐπὶ γῆς χρηματίζων , in connection with the latter, on the other hand, One ἀπʼ οὐρανῶν χρηματίζων , so does he now in like manner urge, as a further proof of that inferiority, the circumstance that God then only shook the earth, but now in accordance with the prophecy will shake not only the earth, but at the same time also the heavens.
ἐσάλευσεν ] is to be understood in the literal sense, not, with Estius and others, in the figurative.
τότε ] then, sc. at the promulgation of the Mosaic law. Comp. Exo_19:18 (where, however, the LXX., probably in reading äÈòÈí instead of äÈäÈø , translate: καὶ ἐξέστη πᾶς ὁ λαὸς σφόδρα ); Jdg_5:4 f.; Psa_68:9 [8], Psa_114:7 : ἀπὸ προσώπου κυρίου ἐσαλεύθη ἡ γῆ .
νῦν δὲ ἐπήγγελται λέγων ] who now, on the other hand, has promised as follows. A constructio ad sensum, since the words form the second member of the relative clause; but, notwithstanding that, a bound is suddenly made from the preceding subject ἡ φωνή to the subject contained in the οὗ , namely, God Himself.
νῦν ] now, has certainly the sense: in regard to the present Christian period (more exactly: in regard to the epoch of the consummation of the divine kingdom by the coming again of Christ). Grammatically, however, νῦν κ . τ . λ . has arisen from the contracting of two statements in one, and is to be resolved, with Schlichting, into: nunc vero commovebit non solum terram sed etiam coelum, sicut promisit apud prophetam, dicens, etc.
ἐπήγγελται ] in the middle sense, as Rom_4:21. See Winer, Gramm., 7 Aufl. p. 246.
The citation is from Hag_2:6, but reproduced in a free and abbreviated form (LXX.: ἔτι ἅπαξ ἐγὼ σείσω τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὴν ξηράν ).
ἔτι ἅπαξ ] Faulty rendering of the LXX. instead of: yet a little while.