INTRODUCTION. Ixxxix 



Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days ; 

 and the seventh day he called unto Moses out 

 of the midst of the cloud. 1 And in another 

 place, And the Lord descended in the cloud, 

 and stood with him there, and proclaimed 

 the name of the Lord? And the Lord came 

 down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and 

 took of the Spirit that was upon him, and 

 gave it unto the seventy elders. 3 And in the 

 New Testament, at the Transfiguration, Be- 

 hold a bright cloud overshadowed them, and 

 a voice out of the cloud* From these pas- 

 sages it appears to follow, that when the 

 Deity thought proper to address his prophets 

 or his people by the voice of words, it was 

 from a cloud. 



But not only did God descend to com- 

 municate with his people, and to reside as it 

 were amongst them in a cloud; but when our 

 Saviour went up into Heaven, it was upon 

 a cloud, which Athanasius calls mounting the 

 cherubim ; 5 and when he comes again, it 

 will be in the same manner, attended by his 

 holy angels. When he is said, in the 



1 Exod. xxiv. 15, 16. 2 Ibid, xxxiv. 5. 



3 Numb. xi. 25. * Matth. xvii. 5. 



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