Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 19:25
So Moses went down unto the people, and spoke unto them.
25. and said unto them ] The paraphrase ‘told’ is illegitimate. The word always means to ‘say’; and is followed regularly by the words said. The narrative is here broken off in the middle. What originally followed must have been the substance of the commands given in vv. 21 24. The next excerpts from J are Exo 24:1-2; Exo 24:9-11.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
So Moses went down to the people,…. As the Lord commanded him:
and spake unto them: charging them to keep their distance, and not presume to pass the line he had drawn, or the foss or fence he had made: in the Jerusalem Targum it is added,
“come and receive the ten words;”
the decalogue or ten commands; and the Targum of Jonathan,
“come and receive the law with the ten words;”
the ten commandments of the law, which are delivered in the following chapter.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
REFLECTIONS
Pause, my soul, over the perusal of this Chapter, and while duly meditating the vast and infinite importance of God’s righteous law, delivered with such awful solemnity on Mount Sinai; learn here from to contemplate with increasing joy and thankfulness, that precious, blessed, holy, law-fulfilling, law-satisfying surety; the Lord Jesus Christ, who hath answered all its demands, and is thereby become the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. And under all the deep convictions of the mind, which wound in the recollection of the manifold transgressions committed by thought, and word, and deed, against the law of God; learn to bless God with increasing praise, at every renewed view of him, who hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. And oh! thou dear Redeemer, do thou by the sweet influences of thy grace in my heart, teach me to prize those inestimable privileges which, by thy great undertaking, both in doing and in dying, thou hast procured me, of always drawing nigh to my God and Father, in thy blood and righteousness. Blessed be God, the boundary which kept back the people, is removed. Our God manifests no longer his presence in the awful signs of the sound of the trumpet and the voice of words. We are not come to the mount which burned with fire: nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest. But we are come to Jesus, even our Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant; and to his precious blood of sprinkling. Oh! for the constant leadings of God the Holy Ghost, that we may have a constant, stated, daily, hourly, drawing nigh, in this new and living way, until we shall arrive at the fountain head of mercies, to the throne of God and the Lamb, to serve him in his temple night and day.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
went down. Moses’ third descent. See note on Exo 19:3. spake. Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6): i.e. “repeated [these things] to the People”.
Here, the three subjects, Thought, Word, and Deed, are repeated in the second table in inverse order. The law given in Arabia. The same country witnessed the giving of Mahomet’s Law.
The moral law given in public at Horeb. Compare Mal 4:4. The ceremonial law given to Moses in the Tabernacle. The judicial law given at sundry times; neither so public and solemn as the former, nor so private as the latter.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
So Moses
The Mosaic Covenant,
(1) given to Israel
(2) in three divisions, each essential to the others, and together forming the Mosaic Covenant, viz.: the Commandments, expressing the righteous will of God Exo 20:1-26 the “judgments,” governing the social life of Israel; Exo 21:1 to Exo 24:11 and the “ordinances,” governing the religious life of Israel; Exo 24:12 to Exo 31:18. These three elements form “the law,” as that phrase is generically used in the New Testament (e.g.) Mat 5:17; Mat 5:18. The Commandments and the ordinances formed one religious system. The Commandments were a “ministry of condemnation” and of “death” 2Co 3:7-9 the ordinances gave, in the high priest, a representative of the people with Jehovah; and in the sacrifices a “cover” (see “Atonement,” (See Scofield “Lev 16:6”) for their sins in anticipation of the Cross; Heb 5:1-3; Heb 9:6-9; Rom 3:25; Rom 3:26. The Christian is not under the conditional Mosaic Covenant of works, the law, but under the unconditional New Covenant of grace.; Rom 3:21-27; Rom 6:14; Rom 6:15; Gal 2:16; Gal 3:10-14; Gal 3:16-18; Gal 3:24-26; Gal 4:21-31; Heb 10:11-17. See NEW COVENANT.
(See Scofield “Heb 8:8”)
See,for the other seven covenants:
EDENIC (See Scofield “Gen 1:28”); ADAMIC See Scofield “Gen 3:15”; NOAHIC See Scofield “Gen 9:1”; ABRAHAMIC See Scofield “Gen 15:18”; PALESTINIAN See Scofield “Deu 30:3”; DAVIDIC See Scofield “2Sa 7:16”; NEW See Scofield “Heb 8:8”.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Exo 19:24