q (7. e.) Command them to ſan&ify and cleanſe themſelves from all filthineſs of Fleſh and Spirit, and to prepare their Hearts for the right receiving of my Laws, and ſolemn entring into Covenant with me. Compare Lev: 11:45. Foſ: 3: 5. and 7.13. r By which ex- ternal waſhing, which was agreeable ro thar ſtate of the Church, they were taught to cleanſe their inward man.
1r And be ready againſt the third day: for the third day s che LORD * will come down t in the of all the people upon mount Sinais
noted before. # In a viſible and glorious manifeſtation of his preſence. |
12 And thou ſbalt ſet bounds to the people round a- bout, ſaying, Take heed to your ſelves that ye go notup into the mount, or touch the border of it : * whoſoever toucheth the mount ſhall be ſurely put to death «.
u By this Symbolical injun&tion, God deſigned, 1» To reſtrain Mens curious and bold enquiries into the things of God. 2. To
j with the dread and reverence of the Divine Majeſty, and of his Holy Law. 3. To prepare and inure the People to the obedience of God's commands, even when they diſcern not the reaſons of them. 4+ To make them ſenſible of their own impurity and infir- mity, and of their abſolute need of a Mediator, through whom they might have acceſs to God See Gal. 3.19. |
was 3 or 4 days after this time, w:s 5o days after the Paſſover, i 13 There thall not a hand touch it x, but he ſhall
whereof 46 or 47 were paſt at their firſt coming to Sinai, reckoning from the 1<th day of the firſt month, when they came aut of Ezypr, to-this time,
| ſurely be ſtoned or ſhort through ; whether it be beaſt | 7 or
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poſſeſs the J/raelires then preſent, and all ſucceeding Generations |
18: and 32:8, 9 Pal. 135: 4. Cant:8. ; I2:
confer my chiefeit and peculiar bleſſings. 'Or, though all the earth be Tſa:43: r: mine, by general right, yet you only are mine by ſpecial title and Jer:10:16:
Mal: 3:17: Tit: 2.14. * Deut.
10. I4- Pal. 24.1.
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8 And * allthe people anſwered together,and ſaid, All *Chap.24. '
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they ſhall come up to the mount 4. 1. Bur 1. This ſeemsro ” a groſs tau- or et wice forbidden in the words next foregoing. 2. S, ow reBi ker > ſ-.em ro be aſcribed borh to man and beaſ?, Orhers therefore render it, rouch him, i. e. they ſhall look upon bo an impudent tranſgreſſvr ot my expreſs command as an abominadbie perſon, whom they cannot touch without defilement, and arr | he ſhall be put to dearh in ſuch a manner as may be performed with- out touching him- » For though the Beaſts are not capable ors Law, yet thzy might be threatned for Man's caution, and puniſhe for the fault of their owners in not keeping them at a on the Mount. = ( 7. e. ) With one continued, equal and gentle found, a$ is uſual in the end of the Muſick-ſong, which is oppoſed to a rough, and loud, and unequal ſound. There was no real TRIER here, but an Angel made a ſound like that of a Trumper. a Object. Tis was forbidden to them Verſe 12. Anſw. 1 They were forbidden to come up to the Mount whileſt God was delivering his Laws, bur allowed it afterwards when that ation ceaſed, which was ſignified by the long ſound of the Trumper. 2. They might not come into the Mount or towards the top of it, but they might come to the bottom or lower parts of it, where the bounds were ſer, or at leaſt towards or near it, as the Hebrew Pcepoſition, beth, is ſomerimes uſed. So the Mount may be underſtood more ſtriftly, Verſe 12. for an eminent part or top of it, where the thick Cloud appeared, and where Moſes was, and here more largely for the whole Mountain. 14 And Moſes went down from the mount unto
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the people, and ſancified the people b, and they waſh-
ed their clothes. ET b By commanding them ro ſanQify themſelves, and dirc&ing
them how to doit. | Ee 15 And he ſaid unto the people, Be ready againſt the third day, * come not at your wives c-
c Abſtaia from the u'e of the Murriage-bed, partly becauſe your Wives may haply have their unc[2anne{supon them, though unknown to themſelves, at leaſt to you, whereby you may be legally defiled. See Lev: 15:18: and part]y that your Minds may be abltratted from all ſenſual Delights, and wholly employed abour this great and holy Work and Service. There is a like command x Cor« 7: 5: burboth this and that do indifferently concern both Minitters and People, and are limited to a certain time, and therefore are very impertinenrly alledged for the p2rpetual celibacy of Miniſters. Sze alfo x Sam:
21:5. : : 16 «© And it came to pals on the third day in the
morning, that there were * thunders and lightnings 4, and a thick clond e upon the mount, .and the voice of the trumpet f exceeding loud, fo that all the people g
that was1n the camp trembled. ;
d Sent partly as Evidences and Tokens both of God's glorious Preſence, and of the Anger of God, and the dreadful Puniſhments due to the Tranſgreflours of the Law now to bedelivered ; and partly as means to humble, and awaken, and convince, and terrify proud and ſecure Sinners, that they might more reverently attend to the Words and Commands of God, more willingly yie!d Obedience to
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them, and be more afraid of the Violation of them. e Wiich was both a fit mean for the Produttion and Reception of the Thunders and Lightnings, and a Signification as well of the inviſible and uncon- ceivable Nature of Go, as of the ohfcurity of the legal Diipenſation in regard of its Types and Shadows, ©. 2 Cor: 3: 13, 18: and 4: 6: f A fit Inſtrument both for rhe Promulgation of God's Law, and for the Signification of that War that is berween God and Sinners. g Moſes himielfnort excepred, as appears from Heb: 12: 21.
17 And * Moſes brought forth the people out of the camp to meet wich God, and they ſtood at the nether part of the mount 6, :
þ Therefore one part of the Mount they might come to, though not to another, to wit. the higher ; which may clearthe difhculry and ſeeming contradiCion betwixt Yerſe 12. and 13.
18 And * mount Sinai was altogether on a ſmoke,
becauſe the LORD deſcended upon it in fire z, and the:
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