In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they [into] the wilderness of Sinai.
Ver. 1. Into the wilderness of Sinai.] A place where were many bushes and briers. Here they received the law, which, like briers and brambles, pricketh and pierceth the consciences of evil men. And this happened four hundred and thirty years after the promise made to Abraham; not to disannul the promise, Gal 3:17 but to advance it; and, that guilt being discovered, and "every mouth stopped," Rom 3:19 we might acknowledge the riches of free grace and mercy.