Deuteronomio 5:5

5 Io stavo allora fra l’Eterno e voi per riferirvi la parola dell’Eterno; poiché voi avevate paura di quel fuoco, e non saliste sul monte. Egli disse:

Deuteronomio 5:5 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:5

I stood between the Lord and you at that time
Between the Word of the Lord and you, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; that is, about that time, not at the exact precise time the ten commandments were delivered, for these were spoken immediately to the people; but when the ceremonial law was given, which was ordained by angels, in the hand of a mediator, ( Galatians 3:19 ) , and which was at the request of the people as follows, terrified by the appearance of the fire out of which the moral law was delivered:

to show you the word of the Lord;
not the decalogue, that they heard with their own ears, but the other laws which were afterwards given, that were of the ceremonial and judicial kind:

for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the
mount;
lest they should be consumed by it: and indeed bounds were set about the mount, and they were charged not to break through:

saying;
this word is in connection with the preceding verse, the Lord's talking out of the midst of the fire, when he said what follows.

Deuteronomio 5:5 In-Context

3 L’Eterno non fermò questo patto coi nostri padri, ma con noi, che siam qui oggi tutti quanti in vita.
4 L’Eterno vi parlò faccia a faccia sul monte, di mezzo al fuoco.
5 Io stavo allora fra l’Eterno e voi per riferirvi la parola dell’Eterno; poiché voi avevate paura di quel fuoco, e non saliste sul monte. Egli disse:
6 "Io sono l’Eterno, l’Iddio tuo, che ti ho tratto fuori dal paese d’Egitto, dalla casa di schiavitù.
7 Non avere altri dèi nel mio cospetto.
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