FPC-Windows Fire

Exodus 24:15-17, 31:8
Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain... And on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire... And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

The symbols in this window include, at the top, the clouds with which God often surrounds himself when he communicates with mankind; and below, the stylized red flames which depict the burning intensity of the divine presence. Out of the fire, at the bottom, the very hands of God proffer to the receiving hands of Moses the two stone tablets on which are inscribed the Ten Commandments. By long-standing tradition, the Roman numerals numbering the ten directives are themselves divided into two groups: One through four, and five through ten. The first group summarizes obligations to God, the second, obligations to fellow human beings, by which a just society may be established.