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In the biblical account of Moses, that prophet goes up onto a mountain to receive instruction and to be given his commission from the Lord.
I think it not coincidental that, in these New Testament accounts, Jesus climbs a mountain and, from there, gives instruction to his disciples and commissions twelve of them as apostles.
There is, in my judgment, powerful symbolism in the topography.
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