Sinai And Contemplation

Successit itaque post haec populus quadragesima septima die egressionis ex Aegyto ad montem Sina, ibique Moyses ascendit ad Dominum, et Dominus ad eum descendit. Mons quippe altitudo contemplationis nostrae est, in qua ascendimus, ut ad ea quae ultra infirmitatem nostram sunt intuenda sublevemur. Sed in hanc Dominus descendit, quia sanctis multum proficientibus parum de se aliquid eorum sensibus aperit. Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis,Mysticorum Expositiones Sacramentorum Seu Quaestiones In Vetus Testamentum, In Exodum, Caput XXVII Source: Migne PL 83.300

Thus it was that after these things that the people, forty seven days after their flight from Egypt, came to mount Sinai, and there Moses ascended to the Lord and the Lord came down to him. The mountain certainly is the height of our contemplation by which we go up, that we might be raised up to things which are beyond our weakness to behold. But in this the Lord descends because for those advancing in holiness much is the little concerning Himself which He reveals to their minds. Saint Isidore of Seville, Expositions of Sacred Mysteries or Questions on the Old Testament, On Exodus, Chap 27