Twentieth_Century(i)
18 It is not to tangible 'flaming fire' that you have drawn near, nor to 'gloom, and darkness, and storm,
19 and the blast of a trumpet, and an audible voice.' Those who heard that voice entreated that they might hear no more,
20 for they could not bear to think of the command-- 'If even an animal touches the mountain, it is to be stoned to death;'
21 and so fearful was the sight that Moses said-- 'I tremble with fear.'
22 No, but it is to Mount Zion that you have drawn near, the City of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
23 to the festal gathering and assemblage of God's Eldest Sons whose names are enrolled in Heaven, to God the Judge of all men, to the spirits of the righteous who have attained perfection,
24 to Jesus, the intermediary of a new Covenant, and to the Sprinkled Blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel.
25 Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from Heaven.