申命记 5:26

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為有血肉生命的人，有誰像我們一樣，聽見永活的　神從火中說話的聲音，還能活著呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
凡 属 血 气 的 ， 曾 有 何 人 听 见 永 生 　 神 的 声 音 从 火 中 出 来 ， 像 我 们 听 见 还 能 存 活 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

²³ When you heard the voice from the darkness, as the mountain was blazing with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me. ²⁴ And you said, "The Lord our God has shown us his glory and majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks to him. ²⁵ But now, we will die! This great fire will burn us up, and we will die if we hear the Lord our God speak anymore. ²⁶ No human being has ever heard the living God speaking from a fire and still lived, but we have. ²⁷ Moses, you go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you tell us what the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and obey." ²⁸ The Lord heard what you said to me, and he said to me, "I have heard what the people said to you. Everything they said was good. ²⁹ I wish their hearts would always respect me and that they would always obey my commands so that things would go well for them and their children forever! ³⁰ "Go and tell the people to return to their tents, ³¹ but you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, rules, and laws that you must teach the people to obey in the land I am giving them as their own." ³² So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you, and follow the commands exactly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

who is: It seems to have been a general opinion, that if God appeared to men, it was for the purpose of destroying them. And indeed most of the extraordinary manifestations of God were in the way of judgment; but here it was widely different. God did appear in a sovereign and extraordinary manner; but it was for the instruction, direction, deliverance, and support of his people.

1. They heard this voice speaking with them in a distinct, articulate manner.

2. They saw the fire, the symbol of his presence, the appearances of which demonstrated it to be supernatural.

3. Notwithstanding God appeared so terrible, yet no person was destroyed; for he came not to destroy but to save. Deuteronomy 4:33

all flesh: Genesis 6:12, Isaiah 40:6, Romans 3:20

living: Joshua 3:10, Psalms 42:2, Psalms 84:2, Jeremiah 10:10, Daniel 6:26, Matthew 26:63, Acts 14:15, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Thessalonians 1:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:22 - and I will Deuteronomy 4:7 - who hath Judges 6:22 - because Judges 13:22 - We shall 1 Samuel 17:26 - defy Jeremiah 23:36 - of the Jeremiah 42:3 - General Matthew 16:16 - the living 1 Timothy 3:15 - the living Hebrews 9:14 - the living Hebrews 12:22 - of the Revelation 7:2 - living

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For who [is there] of all flesh,.... What man was there in any age, that was ever heard of or can be named:

that hath heard the voice of the living God; who lives in and of himself, and is the author and giver of life to all his creatures, whereby he is distinguished from and is opposed unto the lifeless deities of the Gentiles; and which makes him and his voice heard the more awful and tremendous, and especially as

speaking out of the midst of the fire: which was the present case:

as we [have], and lived? of this there never was the like instance; for though some had seen God and lived, as Jacob did, and therefore called the name of the place where he saw him Penuel, Genesis 32:30, and Moses had heard the voice of the angel of the Lord out of a bush, which seemed to be burning, and was not consumed, Exodus 3:2, yet none ever heard the voice of the Lord out of real fire, and particularly expressing such words as he did, but the Israelites. Zoroastres, the founder of the Magi among the Persians, and of their religion, seems to have had respect to this, and to have applied falsely this to himself, which belonged to Moses and the people of Israel; for it is said k,

"one reason the Persians have fire in so much veneration is, because they say that Zoroastres, being caught up to heaven, did not see God, but heard him speaking with him out of the midst of fire.''

k Hyde Hist. Relig. Vet. Pers. c. 8. p. 160.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses contain a much fuller narrative of the events briefly described in Exodus 20:18-21. Here it is important to call attention to the fact that it was on the entreaties of the people that Moses had taken on him to be the channel of communication between God and them. God approved Deuteronomy 5:28 the request of the people, because it showed a feeling of their own unworthiness to enter into direct communion with God. The terrors of Sinai had done their work; they had awakened the consciousness of sin.