“See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:”
See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking; for if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much more will we not escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven? — the how-much-more argument: if Sinai's earthly warning brought judgment on those who rejected, how much more judgment follows rejecting Christ's heavenly warning? The stakes intensify with the new covenant's superiority.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 12:25
Fearful were those things, but these are far more admirable and glorious. For here there is not “darkness,” nor “blackness,” nor “tempest.” It seems to me that by these words he hints at the obscurity of the Old [Testament], and the overshadowed and veiled character of the Law. And besides the Giver of the Law appears in fire terrible, and apt to punish those who transgress. But what are “the sounds of the trumpet”? Probably it is as though some King were coming. This at all…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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