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Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
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Respecting Divine Mystery
Commentators explain that God's warning was against more than physical trespassing. It was a prohibition against the dangerous human curiosity to "gaze" upon God's essence or see a physical form. This serves as a timeless reminder to approach God with humility, content with what He has chosen to reveal, rather than trying to force our way into divine secrets.
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Exodus
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19th Century
Anglican
Lest they break through — that is, force their way through the barrier which Moses had erected.
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16th Century
Protestant
And the Lord said to Moses. By God’s command the same prohibition is repeated: that the people should not cross the boundaries. Undoubtedl…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said to Moses, go down;
As soon as he was got to the top of the mount he was told to go down again to…
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Presbyterian
Never was there such a sermon preached, before or since, as this which was preached to the church in the wilderness. It might be supposed that the …
