For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
3. Fearful were those things, but these are far more admirable and glorious. For here there is not darkness, nor blackness, nor tempest. It seems to me that by these words he hints at the obscurity of the Old [Testament], and the overshadowed and veiled character of the Law. And besides the Giver of the Law appears in fire terrible, and apt to punish those who transgress.
