Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans

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Acts 1:9 (according to St. Luke’s Aramaic expression, abounding in Scriptural meaning): … ועננא קבלתה …… *v* *e* *AN* *a* *Nâ* (ועננא) *Q* *a* *B* *a* *LT* *ā* *H* (קבלתה) … … and a cloud [= Hebrew ענן, reference to the cloud associated with the *descend* of the indwelling of the divine Presence and glory in the desert and in the Temple, lit. *SHeKHiNaH* , שכינה, from the root form of “dwelling,” “tabernacling”/שכן, see Exo 40:38, precisely combining the cloud over and the divine Presence in the tabernacle] received [= Hebrew קיבל = “transmitting the tradition” -> קבלה/ *QaBalaH* , which primarily refers to both Mosaic tradition/pre-Catholicism and Apostolic tradition/Catholicism] Him … As it is a glorious cloud ( *gloriosa* ), it is also a bright one ( *lucida* ), while also “taking Him out of their [and our] sight,” and thereby hiding Him (even though *“ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebus, usque ad consummationem saeculi”* ), cf. Psalm 97[Vul. 98]:2: … עָנָן וַעֲרָפֶל סְבִיבָיו Spiritus Sanctus sit semper vobiscum.