Rabbi Daniel wrote:
If you go to the beginning of the first book, Genesis, instead of jumping to the 20th chapter of the second book you will see it all unfold.
And when you get to Gen. 26:5 you'll find "Abraham obeyed My voice; and he kept My charge, My commandments, My decrees, and My laws." In other words, the Torah.

So there was knowledge of it. It wasn't a surprise.

The initiative is still G-d's, of course.
It is why He created the world.
Hi R. Daniel,   okay, let's say I am wrong about my assumption that God speaking from heaven was not that the law was coming from heaven as though it hadn't been previously known to man., at least to Abraham.

That leaves us with the question of God speaking from heaven, although He was there at Sinai.     Does that mean God perceptible to them at Sinai was also in Heaven?


My Lord, what a morning, when the stars begin to fall - Judith Durham