Chapter 19:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Genesis Leviticus
Exodus 19
Concise Complete
The people come to Sinai, God's message to them, and
their answer. (1-8) The people directed to prepare to hear the law. (9-15) The
presence of God on Sinai. (16-25)
Verses 1-8 Moses
was called up the mountain, and was employed as the messenger of this covenant.
The Maker and first Mover of the covenant, is God himself. This blessed charter
was granted out of God's own free grace. The covenant here mentioned was the
national covenant, by which the Israelites were a people under the government of
Jehovah. It was a type of the new covenant made with true believers in Christ
Jesus; but, like other types, it was only a shadow of good things to come. As a
nation they broke this covenant; therefore the Lord declared that he would make
a new covenant with Israel, writing his law, not upon tables of stone, but in
their hearts,
8:7-10. The
covenant spoken of in these places as ready to vanish away, is the national
covenant with Israel, which they forfeited by their sins. Unless we carefully
attend to this, we shall fall into mistakes while reading the Old Testament. We
must not suppose that the nation of the Jews were under the covenant of works,
which knows nothing of repentance, faith in a Mediator, forgiveness of sins, or
grace; nor yet that the whole nation of Israel bore the character, and possessed
the privileges of true believers, as being actually sharers in the covenant of
grace. They were all under a dispensation of mercy; they had outward privileges
and advantages for salvation; but, like professing Christians, most rested
therein, and went no further. Israel consented to the conditions. They answered
as one man, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. Oh that there had been
such a heart in them! Moses, as a mediator, returned the words of the people to
God. Thus Christ, the Mediator, as a Prophet, reveals God's will to us, his
precepts and promises; and then, as a Priest, offers up to God our spiritual
sacrifices, not only of prayer and praise, but of devout affections, and pious
resolutions, the work of his own Spirit in us.
Verses 9-15 The
solemn manner in which the law was delivered, was to impress the people with a
right sense of the Divine majesty. Also to convince them of their own guilt, and
to show that they could not stand in judgment before God by their own obedience.
In the law, the sinner discovers what he ought to be, what he is, and what he
wants. There he learns the nature, necessity, and glory of redemption, and of
being made holy. Having been taught to flee to Christ, and to love him, the law
is the rule of his obedience and faith.
Verses 16-25
Never was there such a sermon preached, before or since, as this which was
preached to the church in the wilderness. It might be supposed that the terrors
would have checked presumption and curiosity in the people; but the hard heart
of an unawakened sinner can trifle with the most terrible threatenings and
judgments. In drawing near to God, we must never forget his holiness and
greatness, nor our own meanness and pollution. We cannot stand in judgment
before him according to his righteous law. The convinced transgressor asks, What
must I do to be saved? and he hears the voice, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved. The Holy Ghost, who made the law to convince of sin,
now takes of the things of Christ, and shows them to us. In the gospel we read,
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. We
have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Through him we
are justified from all things, from which we could not be justified by the law
of Moses. But the Divine law is binding as a rule of life. The Son of God came
down from heaven, and suffered poverty, shame, agony, and death, not only to
redeem us from its curse, but to bind us more closely to keep its commands.
Chapter 19:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Genesis Leviticus
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
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Titus
Philemon
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