Sinai (4)

Sinai, as was said (in the article preceding) stands in Scripture for law, curse and doom. There at Sinai, the symbols of judgment and wrath -- the thunders and light­nings, the blazing and quaking mount, the smoke thereof that ascended as the smoke of a furnace, the trumpet that sounded long -- threatened and terrified. And the speech that rises from these symbols is, 'The Lord God is a con­suming fire. Woe unto the transgressor of His law!' The children of Israel therefore have reason to...