“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,”
For you have not come to something that can be touched and a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest — the contrast with Sinai begins: what touches the senses (psēlaphtai) — the tangible mountain, fire, darkness, tempest — characterizes the old covenant.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 12:18
Wonderful indeed were the things in the Temple, the Holy of Holies; and again awful were those things also that were done at Mount Sina, “the fire, the darkness, the blackness, the tempest.” cf. Deuteronomy 33:2 For, it says, “God appeared in Sina,” and long ago were these things celebrated. The New Covenant, however, was not given with any of these things, but has been given in simple discourse by God. See then how he makes the comparison in these points also. And with good…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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