Peairtach
Puritan Board Doctor
For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” (hebrews 12:18-21)
Was this terrifying theophany given because the Israelites had already broken the Covenant of Works in Adam, or because they were going to break a new Covenant of Works given to them through Moses?