Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 24:12

12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone , and a law and commandments , which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

(i. e.) Abide, as that verb is used 1 Tim. 4. 15. and elsewhere.

He chose that material, partly as very durable, yet so that it was capable of being broken, which God, foreseeing their wickedness, intended to do, and partly for signification, to note the hardness of their hearts, upon which no impression could be made, but by the finger of God.

Or, the law, and because that is ambiguous to the moral and ceremonial and judicial, he addes, even the commandment or commandements, to wit, the ten commandements, so called by way of eminency, for these onely were written by God upon the stony tables, as appears by Exod. 34. 28. the rest were written onely by Moses in a book, above ver. 4.

Marginal references: chap. 31. 18. and 32. 16.