notes. It may be called a Semiduplex Oratio,1 of which there are many examples in the Or do tempor., p. 83, 88, 213 [Ed. ii. p. 73, 77, 187, 188]. The transcriber, not at all ancient, who added from the LXX. % /3oX/<5/ xararo^evQ/iasrai,2 did not consider that with equal justice he might have added from the LXX., XiGoie, with stones, which would correspond to a dart ; but with greater justice he might have supplied xoiv avfyuwog, and if a man : for stoning was properly applicable to a man, when guilty, rather than to a beast : shooting with a dart was properly applicable to a beast, rather than to a man.
21. To (pavrafyfAevov, the sight) A most real sight is meant. Herodian, i/n aXrtOug spavrafffy rifftv, 3j, x.r.X., whether it was really seen by some, or, etc. — MWU<T?JS, Moses) who however was the only one admitted very near, and therefore saw and felt more than the rest. He indeed acted as the messenger between God and the people ; but while the very words of the Ten Commandments were pronounced, he stood by as one of the hearers; Ex. xix. 25, xx. 16 (19). — gxpo/3og e//*/ xai evrpot&o$) I am struck with fear of mind, and trembling of body. The words differ: 1 Cor. ii. 3, notes. In Deut. ix. 19, for TTO, "I was afraid," the LXX. have s/cpo/Soc s/^i, in the present. The apostle adopts that version, and supplies, KUI evrpopos. Thereby Moses shows his fear and trembling for the anger of God, which had been kindled by the misconduct of the people after the giving of the law : but the sight itself presented to the eyes of Moses, who was previously also reckoned one of the people, Ex. xix. 23, in the word, 133; ch. xxxiv. 27, rendered his fear the greater on account of the misconduct of the people, while the burning of the mountain still continued ; Deut. ix. 15.
22. JAX>,«, but) A sevenfold opposition. Let us see the several points :
I. The mountain which was Mount Zion.
touched : II. The fire that burned : The city of the living GOD.
1 See App.
2 Not a single uncial MS. supports this addition. ACT)/ Vulg. have simply hi0ofio*.Yi0viffST6tf. — ED.