V. 22.— But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. In opposition to Israel’ s coming to mount Sinai, (the material mountain,) the true Israel, to whom the Epistle is addressed, are represented as having come to mount Zion (not a material but a spiritual mountain). In the description of the giving of the law, in the preceding verses, everything is material and earthly. Blackness, darkness, and fire, with lurid smoke, and the sound of the trumpet, are all calculated to affect the senses and inspire terror. Here, on the contrary, everything is spiritual and heavenly. Believers are come to mount Sion. It is remarkable that Jerusalem, which under the old dispensation was chosen for the residence of the God of Israel, where his temple was built, and the sacrifices were offered, was the last place in the promised land of which Israel obtained possession in the reign of David. 2 Samuel 5:7. Hence the God of Israel is said “to have dwelt in His holy hill of Zion,” Psalms 2:6, and "to love the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.” Psalms 87:2. Hence Zion is called “the joy of the whole land.” Psalms 48:2. On this account mount Sion is represented as the dwelling-place of God under the new and better dispensation. This is His rest for ever; here Christ is laid for a foundation, 1 Peter 2:6, and here He is said to stand at the head of His redeemed. Rev. xiv. 1. The city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. This is the city which God hath prepared for His people. Ch. 11:16. It is called Jerusalem that is above, Gal. iv. 26, and the holy city, new Jerusalem, Revelation 21:2. To an innumerable company of angels.— We have seen that thousands of angels were present at the giving of the law, and myriads of the same glorious beings are represented as all ministering to the heirs of salvation, under the direction of Him who is the head of all principalities and powers. The whole of Israel were assembled at Sinai, and there formed into a nation, to which allusion is here made.