Here opens that solemn event, to which the Church, in after ages, frequently refers; of Israel's hearing the voice of the Lord speaking to them. Deuteronomy 4:33. If we spiritualize this passage, may we not compare the thunders and lightnings to those alarms and terrors which beset the soul, when the heart is roused to a sense of having broken the divine law?
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Exodus 19:16
16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.