This is he, that was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give unto us:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Do you mark that thence comes the root, and that salvation is from the Jews? John 4:22 With the Angel, it says, which spoke unto him. Romans 11:16 Lo, again he affirms that it was He (Christ) that gave the Law, seeing Moses was with Him in the Church in the wilderness. And here he puts them in mind of a great marvel, of the things done in the Mount: Who received living oracles to give unto us. On all occasions Moses is wonderful, and (so) when need was to legislate. What means the expression, Living oracles (λόγια)? Those, whereof the end was shown by words (διὰ λόγων): in other words, he means the prophecies. Then follows the charge, in the first instance, against the patriarchs [after], the signs and wonders, after the receiving of the lively oracles: To whom, he says, our fathers would not obey. Acts 7:39 But concerning those, Ezekiel says that they are not living; as when he says, And I gave you statutes that are not good. Ezekiel 20:25 It is with reference to those that he says, Living. But thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt— the place where they groaned, where they cried, whence they called upon God.
