19And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
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According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
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:
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,(for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-21)I. The extraordinary terror with which the law was given. Never was any thing delivered with such awful pomp; every word was accented, and every sentence paused, with thunder and lightning, much louder and brighter, no doubt, than ordinary. And why was the law given in this dreadful manner, and with all this tremendous ceremony? 1. It was designed (once for all) to give a sensible discovery of the…
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