Haweis(i)
18 For ye have not approached the mountain that could only be groped for, and that burned with fire, and the thick cloud, and the darkness, and the tempest,
19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they who heard, earnestly begged that the discourse might not be directed to them:
20 for they could not bear the charge given, and "If but a beast touch the mountain he shall be stoned, or shot through with a dart:"
21 and so terrible was the appearance, that Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and trembling:
22 but ye are come unto mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
23 and to the general assembly and church of the first-born registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men perfected,
24 and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 Beware that ye reject not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not, who rejected him, that upon earth spake by divine influence, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:
26 whose voice then shook the earth, but now he hath promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven."
27 Now this word yet once more manifests the removal of the things shaken, as of things formed, that the things not shaken may endure.
28 Wherefore receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we hold fast the grace, by which we can offer to God acceptably divine service, with reverence and pious awe:
29 for our God is a devouring fire.