Exodus 24:18 (WEB)
Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Catechism · 2
The First Commandment
“The one and true God first reveals his glory to Israel.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ex 19:16-25; 24:15-18.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“In the theophanies of the Old Testament, the cloud, now obscure, now luminous, reveals the living and saving God, while veiling the transcendence of his glory - with Moses on Mount Sinai,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ex 24:15-18.
Fathers and councils · 3
John Damascene
“Moses, of a truth, was the first to abide fasting with God for forty days and again for another forty, and thus doubtless to afflict himself with hunger on the Sabbaths although the law forbade self-affliction on the Sabbath.” — editor's note: Ex. xxiv. 18; xxxiv. 28.
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Tertullian
“…up, who in forty days and as many nights maintained a fast above the power of human nature, while spiritual faith subministered strength (to his body), both saw with his eyes God’s glory, and heard with his ears God’s voice, and understood with his heart God’s law: while He taught him even then (by…” — editor's note: Twice over. See Ex. xxiv. 18 and xxxiv. 28; Deut. ix. 11, 25.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“But Moses actually went up and entered into the cloud, and was charged with the law, and received the tables, which belong, for the multitude, to the letter, but, for those who are above the multitude, to the spirit.” — editor's note: Exod. xxiv. 15, 18.
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Cross-references · 10
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Cited together in Catechism §2085.
Cited together in Catechism §2085.