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Exodus
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In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. See also: Exodus 12:6Exodus 16:1Exodus 12:2When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain. See also: Exodus 3:1Exodus 17:1Exodus 3:12Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: See also: Exodus 3:4Acts 7:38Deuteronomy 5:5-31‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself. See also: Deuteronomy 32:11-12Isaiah 63:9Isaiah 40:31Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; See also: Deuteronomy 14:2Deuteronomy 7:6Deuteronomy 26:18and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.” See also: Revelation 5:101 Peter 2:91 Peter 2:5Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. See also: Exodus 4:29-30Exodus 3:161 Corinthians 15:1All the people answered together, and said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD. See also: Exodus 24:7Exodus 24:3Joshua 24:24The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to the LORD. See also: Deuteronomy 4:36Exodus 24:15-16Exodus 19:16The LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, See also: Hebrews 10:22Genesis 35:2Leviticus 11:44-45and be ready for the third day; for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. See also: Exodus 19:16John 3:13Exodus 34:5You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death. See also: Hebrews 12:20-21Joshua 3:4Deuteronomy 2:4No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.” See also: Hebrews 12:20Exodus 19:161 Thessalonians 4:16Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. See also: Exodus 19:10He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.” See also: Exodus 19:111 Corinthians 7:51 Samuel 21:4-5On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled. See also: Hebrews 12:18-19Psalms 18:11-14Hebrews 12:21Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. See also: Deuteronomy 4:10Deuteronomy 5:5All of Mount Sinai smoked, because the LORD descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. See also: Judges 5:5Revelation 15:8Exodus 3:2When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. See also: Psalms 81:7Exodus 19:16Nehemiah 9:13The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. The LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. See also: Nehemiah 9:13Exodus 19:3Exodus 34:2The LORD said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. See also: 1 Samuel 6:19Exodus 3:5Hebrews 12:28-29Let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break out on them.” See also: Exodus 24:52 Chronicles 30:15Exodus 19:14-15Moses said to the LORD, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’” See also: Exodus 19:12Joshua 3:4-5The 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.” See also: Hebrews 4:16Hebrews 12:29Hebrews 12:18-25So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Exodus 19:1
Ver. 1. This day. The same on which they departed from the Raphidim, or on the third day of the third month; though S. Aug. understands the first of the month; (C.) on which last supposition, allowing 16 days of the month Nisan, 30
of Jiar, and 4 of Sivan, the law was given 50 days after the liberation of the Jews, as the new law was promulgated on Whit-Sunday, on the day of Pentecost. S. Aug. ep. 119. 16. W.
↑ 1Exodus 19:3
Ver. 3. And Moses went up to God. Moses went up to Mount Sinai, where God spoke to him.
↑ 3Exodus 19:4
Ver. 4. Eagles. Out of the reach of danger. As eagles carry their young upon their wings, so I have protected you from all your enemies. Deut. xxxii. 11. C.
↑ 4Exodus 19:5
Ver. 5. Possession, ( peculium. ) Heb. segula, "a chosen portion or treasure."
M. --- Mine. I could have made choice of others. We cannot but admire the goodness of God, who asks for the free consent of the people. Hence they can have no pretence for breaking this solemn covenant.
C. Theod. 9. 35.
↑ 5Exodus 19:6
Ver. 6. Priestly kingdom. "Priests and kings." Chal. You shall rule over the Chanaanites, &c.
and you shall offer sacrifice to me, at least, by slaying the paschal lamb. This kingdom shall not be merely of a civil nature; it shall be also sacred. The whole nation shall be holy, separated from the pagans, and consecrated to me. M.
↑ 6Exodus 19:8
Ver. 8. Related, as a mediator acting between two parties, (H.) though God knew all before.
Thus his servants cease not to lay before him their own and our wants. W.
↑ 8Exodus 19:9
Ver. 9. Cloud, to veil his majesty, while he spoke to Moses in the hearing of all.
H. --- Then they began to place an entire confidence in their leader.
Maimonides.
↑ 9Exodus 19:10
Ver. 10. Garments, with their bodies, as the Jews understand by this expression. They were also to abstain from their wives, &c. By which exterior practices, they were admonished of the interior purity which God required. All nations seem to have adopted similar observances of continence, washing themselves, and putting on their best attire, when they appeared before God.
See Herod. &c. C.
↑ 10Exodus 19:13
Ver. 13. Him. In detestation of his impiety, which has made him unclean. H. ---
Go up into the precincts of the mountain, to which Moses conducted them; (v.
17. 21,) or they might ascend after the trumpet ceased, and the law was given.
For some understand shall begin, in a contrary sense with the Roman Sept.
"when the voices of thunder, and the trumpets, and the cloud shall be no more;" ( apelthe) so also the Chal. Syr. Vatable. The sound which was heard, resembled that of a horn. (Jobel.) See Levit. xxv. 10. C.
↑ 13Exodus 19:15
Ver. 15. Wives. S. Paul recommends continence when people have to pray. 1
Cor. vii. On the pagan temple of Epidaurus, this inscription was placed, "Let those be chaste who enter here."
Clem. strom. 5.
↑ 15Exodus 19:18
Ver. 18. Terrible, by the display of so many instruments of God's power; lightning, fire, a thick cloud, and various peals of thunder, and the sound of a trumpet; besides rain, and the company of millions of angels. Ps. lxvii. 9, 18.
How different was the appearance of Sion, when Jesus proclaimed his gospel!
Heb. xii. 18.
↑ 18Exodus 19:19
Ver. 19. Answered him, "in a speech," articulated and heard by all the people, as the Heb. Sept.
Syr. &c. intimate. Many legislators have pretended that their laws came from heaven. But they had no witnesses. Moses does all openly. His laws are preceded, accompanied, and followed by prodigies.
↑ 19Exodus 19:22
Ver. 22. Sanctified, in an extraordinary manner, above the rest. These priests, according to S.
Aug. are the children of Aaron, and the whole race of Levi, who would shortly be selected by God. But others think, they are those who, by the law of nature, were accustomed to officiate.
Or, as God had declared that they were all a priestly kingdom, some of the most comely and irreproachable youths of each family, had been chosen to present victims, when the covenant with God was to be ratified. C. xxiv. 15. C.
↑ 22Exodus 19:23
Ver. 23. The people. Glassius understands this with an interrogation, "Can no one?" God exempts Aaron from the common law, v. 24. H.
↑ 23Exodus 19:24
Ver. 24. Pass. Sept. "contend violently to pass." The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, Matt. xi. 12. M. --- Moses was the mediator of this covenant, and Aaron his interpreter, to explain to the people the orders of Moses. C. ---
Thus we have seen the dreadful apparatus of the law of fear, with the preface to it, and the approbation of the people.
↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses