Fear came upon me, and trembling
Not only a dread of mind, but trembling of body; which was often
the case even with good men, whenever there was any unusual
appearance of God unto them by a voice, or by any representation,
or by an angel; as with Abraham in the vision of the pieces, and
with Moses on Mount Sinai, and with Daniel in some of his
visions, and with Zechariah, when an angel appeared and brought
him the tidings of a son to be born to him; which arises from the
frailty and weakness of human nature, a consciousness of guilt, a
sense of the awful majesty of God, and an uneasy apprehension of
what may be the consequences of it:
which made all my bones to shake;
not only there was inward fear and outward tremor of body, but to
such a degree, that not one joint in him was still; all the
members of his body shook, and every bone was as if it was
loosed, which are the more firm and solid parts, as is common
many considerable tremor.