72. And all the people saw the voice and the lamps and the sound of the trumpet and the smoking mountain (Ex 20:18). It is usual to ask how the people saw the voice, since voice seems to pertain not to sight but rather to hearing. But, just as I have now used “seems” about all the things that are mentioned by me, so “to see”97 is customarily used for a general sensing having to do not only with the body but also with the mind. Thus this example, too, When Jacob saw that there was food in Egypt (Gn
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