And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they moved, and stood far off.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Saw. The Hebrews often substitute one organ of sense for another. (St. Augustine 9. 72; Jeremias ii. 30.)
The Samaritan reads, "the people heard the thunders and the sound of the trumpet, and beheld the lightning. "Henceforward till chap. xxiv., Moses and Aaron alone heard the voice of God; and the laws delivered, chap. xxv. to xxxi., were revealed to Moses only.
