OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 19:24

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The LORD said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them.”

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Verse 24. Pass. Septuagint “contend violently to pass.” The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, Matthew 11:12. Menochius.—Moses was the mediator of this covenant, and Aaron his interpreter, to explain to the people the orders of Moses. Calmet.—Thus we have seen the dreadful apparatus of the law of fear, with the preface to it, and the approbation of the people.

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