The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up. The descent of God to the mountaintop and the ascent of Moses to the same point creates the meeting: the divine coming down, the human going up, the covenant in the space between. Every biblical covenant is this dynamic: God descends from the infinite to the finite, human beings ascend from the ordinary to the sacred, and the covenant is the meeting point. John 1:14 says the Word became flesh and dwelt among us — the ultimate descent that makes approach possible. The meeting at Sinai's summit is the type of the meeting that becomes permanent in the incarnation.

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