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Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.
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A Rightful Fear of God
Commentators explain that the Israelites' terror was not cowardice but a proper reaction for sinful people before a holy God. This 'instinctive dread,' as one scholar calls it, revealed their awareness of sin and unworthiness to stand directly in God's presence, a common human experience since the fall.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These verses contain a much fuller narrative of the events briefly described in (Exodus 20:18–21). Here it is important to call attenti…
19th Century
Anglican
The speech of the elders to Moses is more fully and exactly described here than in Exodus 20:0, where it is briefly summarized as expressing the mi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now therefore why should we die ? &c.] Since we are now alive, and have so wonderfully escaped the danger we were ex…
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Moses refers to the consternation caused by the terror with which the law was given. God's appearances have always been terrible to man, ever since…
