Holy Scripture
Exodus 24:16
A church father on this verse
“Just as God completed the whole world in six days and rested on the seventh, so the lesser world may be led in most orderly fashion through six stages of successive illuminations to the repose of contemplation. As a figure of this, one ascended by six steps to the throne of Solomon; the Seraphim that Isaiah saw had si…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16And the glory of God came down upon the Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the Lord called Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud.
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14And to the elders they said, Rest there till we return to you; and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have a cause to be tried, let them go to them.
15And Moses and Joshua went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
— Exodus 24:16 —
17And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire on the top of the mountain, before the children of Israel.
18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up to the mountain, and was there in the mountain forty days and forty nights.