Gud 1:pon Mount Horeb, makes a Covenant with Iſrael, 1 ===5, The Covenant or Cen Commandments is delivered to Moſes in two Tables, 622. The Iſraelites deſire, that not God, but Moſes may ſpeak to them, 23-=-27. which God approves of, 28, 29. Mefeexhorts them to Obedience, wich a promiſe of life. 32, 33- bo
A*N D Moſes called all Iſrael 4, and faid unto them, 3. Hear, O LItrael, the ſtatutes and Judgments,which
I ſpeak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them,
and tf kezp, and do them. + Heb: a Fo wit, by their Elders, who were to impart it to the reſt. keep to do
2 * The LORD our God made a covenant with us them. in Horeb. * Exod:
3 The LORD * made not the covenant with our fathers b, but with us : even us, who are all of us alive this day c.
b Eitier 1. Not only with, them, the word only being here under tood, as it is Gen. 32. 28. & 35. 10. 1 Sam, 87. Jer. 7. 19. & 31. 34. Ma#.9. 13. Or, 2. Not at all with them. But then the word Covenant 15 not hereto be taken for the Covenant of Grace in general, for io it was made with their fathers, Exod, 2. 24. but for this particular and maxed diſpenſation of the Covenantar Sinai, as appears both by the foregoing and following words. c He faith nor, that all who made that Covenant at Siva are now alive, for many of them were dead, but that this Covenant was made with all that are now alive, which is moſt crue, for it was made with the elder fort of them in their own perſons, and with the reſt in their Parents, who did covenant for them : for this phraſe with ws, is put excluſively as to their fathers, but not as tn their poſterity, as is evident from rhe nature of the Covenant, As 2, 39. and courſe of the ſtory. ; |
4 * The LORD talked with you face to face d, in, *Exod:tgz the mount out of the midlt of the fire. 2, 19-
4 Not in a viſible ſhape, which was utterly denied, Dezr. 4.12,15. . but perſonally and immediately, not by the Mouth or Miniſtery of Moſes ; plainly and certainly, as when two men talk face to face ; freely and fami'iarly, ſo as not to overwhelm and confound you. Compare Exod. 33. 11. Numb. 12.8.
5 ( Iſtood between the LORD and you eat that time, to ſhew you the word of the LORD f : for yewere afraid, by reaſon of the fire, and went not up intothe mount
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e As a Mediator or Meſſenger between you, according to your deſire, below v. 27. Compare Exod. 19. 16, &e, and 20. 19. Gal.3.19,
f Nat the ten Commandments, which God himſelf uttered, bur the
following ſtatutes and judgments.
6 * I am the LORD thy God b, which brought thee +p,_ 0:4; out of the land of Egypt, fromthe houſe of F bondage. &. Lev. þ The ten Commandments delivered Exod. 20, are here repeated 26. r.
with ſome ſmall! diff-rence of words, but the ſence is perfe&ly the Pal. 81. ſame, and therefore the explication of chem muſt be ferched thence, 10.
7 Thou ſhalt have none other gods before Me. + Heb.
8 Thou ſhalt not make thee any graven image, or any {#2 iikeneſs of any thing that is in heaven above,or that zs in the earth beneath, or that zs in the waters beneath theearth.
9 Thou ſhalt not bow down thy ſelfunto them,nor ſerve them: for I the LORD thy God ar a jealous God, * viſi- ting the iniquity of the fachers upon the children,unto the *Ex. 34-7 third and fourth generation of them that hate me z |
10 * And ſhewing mercy unto thouſands, of them «,, .., that love me, and keep my commandments. 18.
11 Thou ſhalt not take the Name of the LORD thy God in vain : for the LORD will not hold i guiltlets that taketh his Name in vain. |
12 Keep ithe ſabbath-day to ſanctifie ir, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee &.
i To wit, in mind and memory, as it is Exod. 40. 8. & To wit, S i
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# Chap. V. | *n Exodus 20: whither he direfts them, and therefore he here omits the Argumient of the Creation, whichis urged there. 13 Six days thou ſhalt labour, and doall thy work. x4 But the ſeventh day isthe *ſabbath of the LORD thy God, in it thou ſhalt not doany werk, thou, northy ſon, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-ſervant,nor thy maid ſervant, nor thine ox, mor thine afs, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger that is within thy gates ; that thy man ſervant, and thy maid-ſervant may reſt as well as thou. 15 And remember that thou waſt a ſervant / in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand, and by a ftretch- £d-out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded
thee to keep the ſabbath-day.
1 And therefore art highly obliged both to ſerve that God who redeemed thee, eſpecially upon his own day, and not to grudge thy ſ:rvants their reſt upon that day.
16 * Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD 27:15: thy God hath commanded thee, that thy days may be Coloff: ; les bas 3: 20: rolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
{ >a. c. 17 * Thou ſhalt not kill. Mat: 5: #*7 . : 21: 18 * Neither ſhalt thou commit adultery. { *Luke 18; 19 * Neither ſhalt thou ſteal. by 20 Neither ſbalt thou bear falſe witneſs againſt thy
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Do: neighbour. ? ; 4 Rom: 7: 21 * Neither ſbalt thou defire thy neighbours wife, 7: neicher ſhalt thou covet thy neighbours houſe »s, his field,
or his man-ſervant, or his maid-ſervant, his ox, orhis aſs, or any thing that is thy neighbours.
m In Exodus 20. the order is contrary, and thy neighbou's houſe is put before his wife, whereby it is evident, thar Me; intended this but for one Commandment, wherein the order of the words was an inconſiderable circumſtance : for if this were two Commandments, as ſome would have it, it would be altogether uncertain which is rhe Ninth, and which the Tenth Commandmenr, ſeing the one is firſt, Exodus 20. and the other here.
22 Theſe words the LORD ſpake unto all your aſſem-
bly in the mouut,out of the midit of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkneſs, with a great voice, and he added no more »,. and * he wrote them in two tables *Exod:24: of ſtene, and delivered them unto me. T2: n He ceaſed for that time to ſpeak immediately,and with that loud voice unto the people,for the reſt were delivered to Moſes, and by him communicated to the people. This he did to ſhew the preeminency of that Law above the reſt, and its everlaſting Obligation.