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A Terrifying Encounter
The direct experience of God's voice was so overwhelming that the Israelites feared for their lives. Commentators explain this wasn't a lack of faith, but a natural reaction for sinful humanity before a perfectly holy God. They realized they could not endure direct contact and desperately needed someone to stand in the gap for them, asking Moses to be their intermediary.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 20:18–21
18th Century
Theologian
Compare with Deuteronomy 5:22-31. Aaron (Exodus 19:24) on this occasion accompanied Moses in drawing near to the thick darkness.
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Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 20:19
19th Century
Bishop
Speak thou with us. —Compare to Deuteronomy 5:24-27, where the words of the people are reported at greater length: Behold, the…
John Gill
On Exodus 20:19
17th Century
Pastor
And they said to Moses
Who was now come down from the mountain, and to whom the heads of the tribes and elders of the people c…
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Matthew Henry
On Exodus 20:18–21
17th Century
Minister
This law, which is so extensive that we cannot measure it, so spiritual that we cannot evade it, and so reasonable that we cannot find fault with i…