“The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.”
'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look - the divine self-identification ('I am the God of your fathers') reaches back to the patriarchal promise, grounding present action in covenant continuity. Moses's trembling (entos, trembling with fear) is the numinous fear appropriate to encountering the holy (cf. Luke 1:12). The refusal to look is reverent awe.
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