“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,”
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering — the dramatic shift: rather than Sinai's terror, you have come (proserchomai) to Zion, God's dwelling. Innumerable angels (archangeloi) in festival procession (panēgyris) surround the new covenant.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 12:22
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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