Exodus 33:14,15

Exo. 33:14, 15. "And he said, My presence shall go with thee. And he said, if thy presence go not with us, carry us not up hence." Hence probably the heathen Pan and Faunus, the god of shepherds - the shepherds were the Israelites that were by the Egyptians called the shepherds, because a shepherd was a strange thing in their country. Hence Pan is supposed to be one of Bacchus's principal commanders, because God's presence is here promised to be with Moses and the people, to help them in their wars. And Pan going with Bacchus to war, is said to have put astonishing fears on all their enemies, which arises from the great terrors with which the God of Israel (whose shepherd) brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, with which he terrified the Egyptians and Israel themselves, and all nations, by what appeared when God gave the law; and so the great terrors sent into the hearts of their enemies in Canaan, so very often spoken of. See Genesis 35:5; Exodus 15:14-16; Deuteronomy 2:25; Deuteronomy 11:25; Deuteronomy 34:12; Joshua 2:9; Exodus 34:10; Psalms 106:22; Deuteronomy 10:17; Deuteronomy 10:21; Deuteronomy 26:8; Exodus 23:27. God never manifested himself so much to the heathen nation in his awful terrors, as he did in the affair of leading Israel as their shepherd out of Egypt through the wilderness into Canaan, and settling them there. Those fears and terrors are spoken of as from the presence of the Lord. Psalms 68:7; Psalms 68:8. "O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the [Hebrew word for] presence, of the Lord (the Pan or Faunus of the heathen), even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of the God of Israel," (the shepherds), and Psalms 97:4; Psalms 97:5. "His lightnings enlightened the world; the earth saw and trembled. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth." For terror and trembling is often spoken of as what properly arises from the presence of the Lord. Isaiah 64:1-3. "O that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence." So Isaiah 19:1; Jeremiah 5:22; Ezekiel 38:20. Whence that proverbial expression, panic fears, Bochart says that Faunus among the Latins is the same god, and of the same original, with Pan. Pan is said to be an Egyptian god, to come up with Bacchus (i.e. Moses) to fight against the giants. That which God promised Moses when he said, "my presence shall go with thee," was his Son; the same with the angel of his presence, spoken of Isa. 63 and therefore when Christ was crucified. Hence the relation of Plutarch touching the mourning of the demoniac spirits for the death of their great god, Pan, and the ceasing of their oracles thereupon. Bochart says, "The Hebrew [word for] Pan, one that is struck, or strikes with astonishing fears." See Court of Gen. p. 1, b. 2, c. 6, 7. 70, 71.