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Fragments on Hebrews

24.605 For a divine descent is said to have occurred upon the mountain at the time when he gave the law, so that all might see the power of God; for this descent is manifest, not spatial. For though the things growing on the mountain were burning fiercely, the fire consumed nothing; and the sounds of trumpets were heard very loudly, though no such instruments were present, nor anyone sounding them, but all things were happening by a divine contrivance. So that it is clear from these things that the descent was divine, and that God was showing his own majesty through all things without any medium.

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Fragmenta in Hebraeos

24.605 Λέγεται γὰρ κατάβασις θεία ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος γεγονέναι καθ' ὃν ἐνομοθέτει

καιρὸν, ἵνα πάντες θεάσωνται τὴν ἐνέργειαν τοῦ Θεοῦ· κατάβασις γὰρ αὕτη σαφής ἐστιν, οὐ μὴ τοπική. Τῶν γοῦν φυομένων κατὰ τὸ ὄρος φλεγομένων σφοδρῶς, οὐδὲν τὸ πῦρ ἐξανάλωσε· σαλπίγγων τε φωναὶ σφοδρότερον συνηκούοντο, μὴ προκειμένων ὀργάνων τοιούτων, μηδὲ τοῦ φωνήσαντος, ἀλλὰ θείᾳ κατασκευῇ γινομένων ἁπάντων. Ὥστε σαφὲς εἶναι διὰ ταῦτα τὴν κατάβασιν θείαν γεγονέναι, καὶ τὸν Θεὸν ἄνευ τινὸς δεικνύναι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ διὰ πάντων μεγαλειότητα.