{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4527","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":19,"chapter_to":19,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: And this is pictured for you in the writings of Moses. For the God of all came down in the likeness of fire on Mt. Sinai, and there was a cloud, and darkness, and gloom and the voice of the trumpet with a loud ringing sound, according to the Scripture. The notes of the trumpet were, it says, few at first, but afterwards they waxed longer and became louder and louder continually. What then was it which the shadow of the law signified to us by these things? Was it not this: that at first there were but few to publish the gospel tidings; but afterwards they became many?<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF Luke 60</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: But also, when she has become worthy that it may be said of her as it was said of Moses, that \"Moses spoke, and the Lord answered him,\" then is fulfilled in her that which He says: \"Make me hear your voice.\" … But a great praise of her is shown in what is said: Your voice is sweet. For thus the most wise prophet David spoke: \"May my discourse be sweet to him.\" And the voice of the soul is sweet when it speaks the word of God, when it expounds concerning faith and the doctrines of truth, when it explains the dispensations of God and his judgments.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS, BOOK 4</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: But that an answer signifies not the alternation of conversing but teaching in the holy scriptures, let the divine law teach you. \"Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice\". That answer was concerning the matters about which the Lord was instructing the ignorant Moses.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF Luke 18</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"b0c90f066c045bf1f90e59031dcbafaacfb0336c72f7daaa098d6a2eeea2893c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4527,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3cf06640f01939065c728a1ff0fb15bc38cb55e5b679cbce97683113ac310ab4","translator":null,"work":null}