Holy Scripture

Deuteronomy 5:26

A church father on this verse
“If to hear the voice of God speaking is a cause of death, how will the sight of God not cause death? And why wonder? Even Moses himself says, "I am greatly terrified and trembling." What then? Would you that he who came for our salvation become a minister of destruction because men could not bear him? Or rather that h…”
Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th c. — Catechetical Lecture 12.13-14

Source: Septuagint

Original

26For what flesh is there which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live?

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24and ye said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.

25And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore, and we shall die.

— Deuteronomy 5:26 —

27Do thou draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and thou shalt speak to us all things whatsoever the Lord our God shall speak to thee, and we will hear, and do.

28And the Lord heard the voice of your words as ye spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to thee. They have well said all that they have spoken.

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