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Exodus 19:20

Exodus 19:20

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And the Lord came down on Mount Sinai,.... In the above visible tokens of his presence and power; otherwise he is the incomprehensible Jehovah, that immense and omnipotent Being, who fills heaven and earth, and cannot be contained and circumscribed in either:on the top of the mount; where the fire he descended in rested, and where the smoke and thick cloud were, as a token of his presence:and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; who either was at the bottom of it with the people, or in a higher ascent of it between God and them:and Moses went up; to the top of it, where the Lord was, as he ordered him: a certain traveller tells us that the top of this mount was scarce thirty feet in circumference.

Baumgarten Peregrinatio, l. 1. c. 24. p.

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