Attestation of revelation is in essentials, if not in words, attestation of the holy.

a) Gen 28 and 32, Exod 3 and 19, and Is 6, for example, display the typical combination of remoteness and proximity, fear and joy in the holy. Peter’s cry: “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, О Lord” (Lk 5:8), and the other, “It is well that we are here; let us make three booths” (Mk 9: 5), indicate the tensions within which the domain of the …