For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
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Gill's Exposition
O that there were such an heart in them,.... Not that there is properly speaking such volitions and wishes in God; but, as Aben Ezra observes, the Scripture speaks after the language of the children…
These verses contain a much fuller narrative of the events briefly described in Exo 20:18-21. Here it is important to call attention to the fact that it was on the entreaties of the people that Moses…
Here, I. Moses reminds them of the agreement of both the parties that were now treating, in the mediation of Moses.
1. Here is the consternation that the people were put into by that extreme terror…
Cambridge Bible
flesh Emphatic; it cannot endure immediate contact with spirit (Isa 31:3).
the living God Rather, a living God, cp. Deu 4:33. The phrase always occurs in the O.T. without the article even when as in…
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