| Exodus 20:18
| And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off,
| Saw. The Hebrews often substitute one organ of sense for another. (St. Augustine 9:72.; Jeremias 2:30.) --- The Samaritan reads, "the people heard the thunders and the sound of the trumpet, and beheld the lightning." Henceforward till (Exodus 24.), Moses and Aaron alone heard the voice of God; and the laws delivered, (Exodus 25. -- Exodus 31.) were revealed to Moses only.
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