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1And God spake all these words, saying,

Exodus 20:1

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

  • The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

  • Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

  • Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

  • This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

Here is, I. The preface of the law-writer, Moses: God spoke all these words , Exod. 20:1. The law of the ten commandments is, 1. A law of God’s making. They are enjoined by the infinite eternal Majesty of heaven and earth. And where the word of the King of kings is surely there is power . 2. It is a law of his own speaking. God has many ways of speaking to the children of men (Job 33:14); once, ye…

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