And the LORD said unto him,
Away, get down, and then you shall come up, you, and Aaron with you: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pass. Septuagint, "contend violently to pass. "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, Matthew xi. 12. (Menochius)
Moses was the mediator of this covenant, and Aaron his interpreter, to explain to the people the orders of Moses. (Calmet)
Thus we have seen the dreadful apparatus of the law of fear, with the preface to it, and the approbation of the people.