Exodus 20:20

Fear not... his fear many be before your faces.

Moses encourages and comforts them against that fear of immediate death which they appear to have entertained, and at the same time assures them that from fear of another kind they were not by any means to be freed. Indeed, it was one special design of the present array of terrors to inspire them with it. The language marks very clearly the distinction between the fear which has torment, which flows from conscious guilt, which genders to bondage, and which drives away from God, and that salutary fear which prompts to. deep reverence of the divine majesty.