Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”
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.
Commenting on Exodus 20:18-21
And the Lord said unto Moses,.... When Moses was come near the thick darkness where God was: thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel; at his return unto them, and which he was to deliver in the name of God, and as his words: ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven; descending from heaven on Mount Sinai in a...
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. (o) Whether you will obey his precepts as you promised in .