...mountain smoking ; and when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off: and they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear ; but let not God speak with us, lest we die." This again, Sir, is the Scripture account of the language of the contemporaries of Mosos and Joshua...

...had heard the voice of the Lord, witnessing to them, when they, trembling with awe and fear, said, " Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die," Exod. xxj 19. Then he endeavoured, by recalling to their minds the many and great mercies of their...

...mountain smoking : and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, " Speak thou with us, and we will hear : but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20 And Moses said unto the people. Fear not : for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be...

...mountain smoking, they removed, and stood afar off": and said unto Moses, Speak thou with us ; and zee will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. Even Motes himself exceedingly feared and quaked. I argue this doctrine also from the fact that this command...

...fire." This your forefathers felt when they were called upon to meet God when he appeared on Sinai ; they said to Moses, " Speak thou with us, and we will...; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.":); Moses alone was not enough; Aaron, the priest, had to go up with him ; yet these two were but mere...

...people of Israel, overwhelmed with astonishment and awe at the presence of the Lord on Mount Sinai, said to Moses : " Speak thou with us, and we will...hear : but let not God speak with us, lest we die." Exod. xx. 19. Deut. v. 25. See Judges vi. 21—23. xiii. 22. Isa. vi. 5. 3 Matt. xiv. 28. 4 Matt. viii....

...withering of that passing life which is sacrificed for it. But the flesh ever joins with the Israelites who said to Moses, " speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us, lest we die." We know, indeed, that many of them had direct spiritual communion with God, but I speak of the typical...

...which appalled their hearts. Then, as we read in the twentieth chapter of Exodus, " They said unto Moses, speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us lest we die." God accepted them in this thing, and constituted Moses to go between him and them, and he gave them...

...rabbies, God spake only the ten commandments to the people, and when they heard these, " they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us and we will hear ; but let not God speak with us, lest we die." (Verse 19. ) To say, therefore, that God's speaking " all these words " includes the whole oral law...

...of the Lord; "they removed, and stood afar off." And in the greatness of their fear " they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die." The prayer, in itself, exhibits, as we have observed, nothing more than the feelings natural to so...