For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
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Cyril of Jerusalem
AD 386
If to hear the voice of God speaking is a cause of death, how will the sight of God not cause death? And why wonder? Even Moses himself says, “I am greatly terrified and trembling.” What then? Would you that he who came for our salvation become a minister of destruction because men could not bear him? Or rather that he should temper his grace to our measure? Catechetical Lecture–.
