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for they could not stand that which was enjoined, "If even a animal touch the mountain, it will be stoned;"
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The Terror of the Law
Commentators explain that the scene at Mount Sinai was terrifying. The command that even an animal touching the mountain must be killed illustrates the immense gap between a holy God and sinful humanity under the Old Covenant. This wasn't just about the rules themselves, but the overwhelming and fearful manner in which God's presence was revealed, causing the people to fear for their lives.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For they could not endure that which was commanded. They could not sustain the awe produced by the fact that God uttered his commands hims…
For they could not endure (ουκ εφερον γαρ). Imperfect active of φερω, "for they were not enduring (bearing)."
That …
19th Century
Anglican
There is no sufficient reason for enclosing this verse and the next in parentheses.
And if so much as.—Better, If even a…
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Baptist
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sou…
The fearfulness of the giving of the law on Sinai is brought out with reference to one of the commands laid on the people, namely, that neither hum…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For they could not endure that which was commanded In the law; not that they disliked and despised the law, as unregenera…
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Mount Sinai, on which the Jewish church-state was formed, was a mountain that could be touched (though the people were forbidden to do so)—a place …
13th Century
Catholic
Having warned them to avoid the evils of guilt, the Apostle now provides the reason, which is based on a comparison between the Old and New Testame…
