SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:20
Entonces Moisés respondió al pueblo: No temáis; que por probaros vino Dios, y para que su temor esté en vuestra presencia para que no pequéis.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 20:20
Verse 20. And Moses said-Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces] The maxim contained in this verse is, Fear not, that he may fear - do not fear with such a fear as brings consternation into the soul, and produces nothing but terror and confusion; but fear with that fear which reverence and filial affection inspire, that ye sin not - that, through the love and reverence ye feel to your Maker and Sovereign, ye may abstain from every appearance of evil, lest you should forfeit that love which is to you better than life. He who fears in the first sense can neither love nor obey; he who fears not in the latter sense is sure to fall under the first temptation that may occur. Blessed is the man who thus feareth always.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-21 - This law, which is so extensive that we cannot measure it, so spiritual that we cannot evade it, and so reasonable that we cannot find faul with it, will be the rule of the future judgment of God, as it is for the present conduct of man. If tried by this rule, we shall find ou lives have been passed in transgressions. And with this holy law and a awful judgment before us, who can despise the gospel of Christ? And the knowledge of the law shows our need of repentance. In every believer' heart sin is dethroned and crucified, the law of God is written, an the image of God renewed. The Holy Spirit enables him to hate sin an flee from it, to love and keep this law in sincerity and truth; no will he cease to repent.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 משׁה 4872 אל 413 העם 5971 אל 408 תיראו 3372 כי 3588 לבעבור 5668 נסות 5254 אתכם 853 בא 935 האלהים 430 ובעבור 5668 תהיה 1961 יראתו 3374 על 5921 פניכם 6440 לבלתי 1115 תחטאו׃ 2398
