Mount Sinai
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the mountain
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Stromata
The mountain of the theophany where fire and a trumpet-sound accompanied the giving of the law.
And a cloud being present, and a high mountain, how is it not possible for a varied sound to be heard, as the wind is moved by the working cause?
and those who pass through the place, coming to the first mountain, hear a sound as of a confused crowd, like that of not a few myriads shouting, as in array of battle;
And how will the Greeks any longer disbelieve the divine manifestation about Mount Sinai, when fire was burning, consuming nothing of the things that grew about the mountain, and a sound of trumpets was borne, breathed forth without instruments?
Adversus Marcionem
The mountain named as the source of the covenant of law and bondage in the allegory of Abraham's two sons.
one from Mount Sinai, generating into the bondage of the synagogue of the Jews according to the law, the other generating above every principality, might, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but in that to come, which is our mother, into which we have promised the holy church;