“Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”
'Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.' — the quotation of Haggai 2:6 prophesies cosmic upheaval. God's voice shakes the created order itself.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 12:26
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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