Deuteronômio 5:25

25 Agora, pois, por que havemos de morrer? Este grande fogo nos consumirá; se ainda mais ouvirmos a voz do Senhor nosso Deus, morreremos.

Deuteronômio 5:25 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:25

Now therefore why should we die?
&c.] Since we are now alive, and have so wonderfully escaped the danger we were exposed unto, let us be careful that we are not liable to it again:

for this great fire will consume us:
if it continues, and we are exposed to it; perhaps some of them might remember the fire that burnt in the uttermost parts of the camp at Taberah, and the destruction of Korah and the two hundred and fifty men with him by fire, ( Numbers 11:1 ) ( 16:35 ) ,

if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die;
for it was such a voice of words they could not endure as to the matter of them, and therefore entreated the word might not be spoken to them any more; it being the killing letter, and the ministration of condemnation and death; and the manner in which it was delivered was so terrible, that they concluded they could not live, but must die if they heard it again; and imagined that if the fire continued, the flames of it would spread and reach them, and they would not be able to escape them.

Deuteronômio 5:25 In-Context

23 Mas quando ouvistes a voz do meio das trevas, enquanto ardia o monte em fogo, viestes ter comigo, mesmo todos os cabeças das vossas tribos, e vossos anciãos,

24 e dissestes: Eis que o Senhor nosso Deus nos fez ver a sua glória e a sua grandeza, e ouvimos a sua voz do meio do fogo; hoje vimos que Deus fala com o homem, e este ainda continua vivo.

25 Agora, pois, por que havemos de morrer? Este grande fogo nos consumirá; se ainda mais ouvirmos a voz do Senhor nosso Deus, morreremos.

26 Porque, quem há de toda a carne, que tenha ouvido a voz do Deus vivente a falar do meio do fogo, como nós a ouvimos, e ainda continue vivo?

27 Chega-te tu, e ouve tudo o que o Senhor nosso Deus falar; e tu nos dirás tudo o que ele te disser; assim o ouviremos e o cumpriremos.