(For Anne Prescott)
Do you mean Mounts specifically designated Contemplation, or just any old
mounts of visionary destiny? If the latter, then I suppose Nebo/Pisgah
would be the main antetype, though Moses, of course, was looking at what he
specifically would NEVER get to because he had sinned. Just because one can
see it from a sublime place doesn't mean one can reach it. An admonitory
thought perhaps. Whether Nebo was taken up specifically as a type of
contemplation in commentaries might be worth looking into. It's hard to
imagine it wasn't, but I don't have particular texts to hand.
Tom
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