Sinai

Sacred mountain where Moses received the law from God, both the first and second tablets. Moses stood there twice for 40 days and nights fasting and conversing with God, receiving horns of light. The Hebrews have a tradition that Moses received not only the law but also its explanation on Sinai.

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers — Moses received on Mount Sinai from God not only the law but also the explanation of the law

  "Moses received on Mount Sinai from God not only the law but also the explanation of the law"

• The Virtues of Moses — Moses stood twice for 40 days and nights fasting on Sinai and received horns of light

  "About to receive the tablets of the law on Sinai, he stood twice for 40 days and nights fasting and conversing with God"

• Moses and Christ: Nineteen Parallels — Moses received the first and second tablets of the law from God on Sinai

  "Moses had two singular encounters with God: the first when he received the first tablets of the law from God on Sinai"

• Praises of Moses from Scripture and the Fathers — Stephen recalls that an angel appeared to Moses in the desert of Mount Sinai

  "there appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai an angel, in a flame of fire in a bush"

• Prayer to Moses — Moses was a spectator of the glory of God from afar on Sinai

  "you who from afar on Sinai were once a spectator of the glory of God"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Argumentum — The Hebrews received the Decalogue and other laws from God at Sinai

  "where at Sinai they received the Decalogue and the other laws from God"

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — The Lord delivered the law to Moses at Sinai and is called an angel

  "the Lord who delivered the law to Moses at Sinai, Exodus 19 and 20, is called an angel"

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