Esodo 34:30

30 Ed Aaronne e tutti i figliuoli d’Israele riguardarono Mosè; ed ecco, la pelle del suo viso risplendeva; onde temettero di accostarsi a lui.

Esodo 34:30 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 34:30

And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
&c.] Who very probably met him at the bottom of the mount; these Israelites with Aaron were the princes, as Aben Ezra seems rightly to interpret it, and as appears from the following verse; for Moses could not well be seen by the whole body of the people at once, upon his descent from the mount:

behold, the skin of his face shone;
darted out rays of light and glory all around it, much perhaps in the same manner as the glory about our Lord, and others, is painted by the Romanists:

and they were afraid to come nigh him;
there was something so majestic and striking in it; and perhaps they could not tell whether it foreboded good or evil to them; and this may signify, that as by the light of the law sin is discovered, it fills with a sense of wrath and fear of damnation; and being the ministration of condemnation and death, it is terrifying and killing, though it has a glory in it.

Esodo 34:30 In-Context

28 E Mosè stette quivi col Signore quaranta giorni e quaranta notti; senza mangiar pane, nè bere acqua; e il Signore scrisse sopra quelle tavole le parole del patto, le dieci parole.
29 Ora, quando Mosè scese dal monte di Sinai, avendo le due Tavole della Testimonianza in mano, mentre scendeva dal monte, egli non sapeva che la pelle del suo viso era divenuta risplendente, mentre egli parlava col Signore.
30 Ed Aaronne e tutti i figliuoli d’Israele riguardarono Mosè; ed ecco, la pelle del suo viso risplendeva; onde temettero di accostarsi a lui.
31 Ma Mosè il chiamò; ed Aaronne e tutti i principali ritornarono a lui alla raunanza; e Mosè parlò loro.
32 E, dopo questo, tutti i figliuoli d’Israele si accostarono, ed egli comandò loro tutte le cose che il Signore gli avea dette nel monte di Sinai.
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