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21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

Exodus 20:21

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Matthew Henry

(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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