Isaías 19
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Isaías 19:1
[At the Mount of Transfiguration] the Father uttered a voice out of the cloud. Why out of the cloud? Because this is how God appears. For a "cloud and darkness are around him." "He sits on a light cloud," and "He makes clouds his chariot." "A cloud received him out of their sight." "As the Son of Man coming in the clouds."14His voice comes from a cloud so that they might believe that the voice proceeds from God. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 56:5
Isaías 19:1
That it was Jesus himself [at the ascension] they knew from the fact that he had been conversing with them (for had they seen only from a distance, they could not have recognized him by sight), but that he is taken up into heaven the angels themselves inform them. Observe how it is ordered, that not all is done by the Spirit, but the eyes also do their part. But why did "a cloud receive him"? This too was a sure sign that he went up to heaven. Not fire, as in the case of Elijah, nor fiery chariot, but "a cloud received him"; which was a symbol of heaven, as the prophet says, "Who makes the clouds his chariot"; it is of the Father himself that this is said. Therefore he says, "on a cloud"; in the symbol, he would say, of the divine power, for no other power is seen to appear on a cloud. For hear again what another prophet says: "The Lord sits upon a light cloud." — Homily 2 on the Acts of the Apostles