(5) Lk 9-'^ 'And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering' (6 i/mTiff/iis out-oD Xevxis 4^aiTTpiirToiv ; RV 'became white and dazzling'). This is the only occurrence in NT of the Gr. compound {^auTpawTeiv. It is found in LXX, Ezk 1'' of the flashing of flames of fire, 1' and I)n 10' of the glittering of burnished brass, and Nah 3* of flashing spears. The simple verb is used twice by St Luke (and by no otlier NT writer), 17=* or the flashing of lightning, and 24'' of the ' shining garments ' (RV ' dazzling apparel ') of the angels at the tomb.* The meaning of the simple verb, then, is to flash as lightning, and the compound means to flash forth, and may be con- sciously chosen (as Farrar holds) to suggest that the flashing was from some !««iarrf radiance. The versions as a rule are feeble and inadequate ; Vulg. ' vestitus ejus albus et refulgens'; Wya
• Cf. Milton, Comus. 219—
• I see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme good, f whom all things iU Are but as slavish olticers of vengeance. Would send a glistering guardian, if need wer«. To keep my life and honour unassail'd.'
GLOKIOUS
GLuKY
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' his clothing whit shining ' ; Luther ' eein Kleid war Weiss, und gliinzte ' ; 'find. ' his garment was wliyte and shoon ' ; so Cov. (sliyned), Rog., Cran., CJen. 1557 ; Gen. 1560 ' his garment was wliite and glistered ' ; Bish. ' his garment shining very white '; lihem. • his raiment white and glistering ' ; Ost. ' ses liabits dcvinrent blancs et resplendissants romme un (dair' ; Olt. 'ses vetements devinrent eblouissants de blancheur ' ; Seg. ' Son vfitement devint d'une iclatante blancheur'; Weizsiicker ' sein Gewand ward strahlend weiss.' The KV word 'dazzling' (introduced also at Lk 24^) is new, and involves a new idea which the Gr. word does not suggest, and wliieh transfers the mind from the sight to the spectators.*
By a strange contrast Tindale uses ' glistringe whyte' (Lv 13'--^) of the ' bright spot' in the skin winch had to be examined for leprosy. Bunyan more appropriately {Huly War, p. 146) makes Emmanuel command ' that those that waited upon him should go and bring forth out of his Treasury those white and glistering robes that I, said he, have provided and laid up in store for my Mansoul.' And Rutherford (Letters, No. 51) writes to Marion M'Naught, ' I dare in faith say and write (I am not dreaming), Christ is but seeking (what He will have and make) a clean glistering bride out of the lire.' J. HASTINGS.
GLORIOUS.— The adj. 'glorious' had a wider application formerly than it has now. Thus Sylvester, Du Bartas's Wcelcs, ii. —
' Yet will I not this Work of mine give o're. The Labour's great ; my Courage yet is more ;
Ther's nothing Glorioua but is hard to get.*
It is applied in AV not only to the king (2 S 6="), and the king's daughter (Ps 4.")'''), but also to the beauty of Ephraira standing above its fertile valley (Is28'''), and the security of Tyre 'in the heart of the seas ' (Ezk 27^) ; \\ isdom is glorious (Wis 6'=), and the 'fruit of good labours' (3"), and the 'long robe of righteousness' (Sir 27*); and (not only figuratively but literally) dress is described as glorious, Esther's (Ad. Est 14- 15'), the apparel of the young men of Judah in the peaceful days of Simon (1 Mac 14"), and even Nicanor's apparel (2 Mac 8"^).
But the most evidently obsolete use of the word is wlien it means bonMJul, or as we still say vain- glorious. Ad. Est 11" 16' ('lifted up wi'th the glorious words of lewd persons that were never good,' Toh rCiv aireLpayiiOuv Kl)^Trots iirapdlvTi^, RV 'boastful'). Tills meaning of 'glorious,' which follows Lat. ijloriosvs, was once common, and is still retained by the Frencli q/orieitx. Tlius Bacon (Essays, ' Of Followers and Friends,' Gold. Treas. ed. p. 198), ' Likewi.se (ilorious Followers, who make themselves as Trumpets, of the Com- mendation of those they Follow, are full of Incon- venience'; and 'Of Vaine-'dory ' (p. 216), 'They tliat are Glorious must needs be Factious ; for all Bravery stands upon Comparisons.' So Chapman, Homers Iliads, xiii. 738—
* Vain-spoken man and glorious.'
J. Hastings. GLORY (IN OT).— In EV ' glorj- ' most frequently coni-]iondsto the Hebrew tia;, which i" also, owing to the dillerence between Hebrew and English idiom, in some cii-ses tr'' by ' glorious '(cflr. Is 4^ 11'", Nell 9'). But several otiier Heb. words are also sometimes tr'' by 'glory ' or 'glorious,' viz. n-i-x, t-:n, and the Ninh. and Iliph. of the vb. [""»<] in Zee 11^ and v." (RVm), Ex IS"'', Is 42'" ; i^k) Ps 70' ; i^.i
" 'White and dazzling' 1» SIt». Lewis's tr» of the .'^inaitio Palimpsest, but with marg. 'like lightning.' » O^ *^*"^ ■ cf.
Delitach's Hebrew translation of the Gospels, pn?-?) I'?7'7-
e.g. Ps 45» 148'^ ; -nn e.g. Is 5" (cf. -Bin 63'), Ps 90»« | n-jNDn e.g. I's 16^' 20=» ; ■;? e.g. Is 13'" 24'". In Dn 'glory' occurs several times as tr" of the Aram. KIS;. The verb ' to glory ' in EV generally corre- sjionds to SSTpri 'to make one's boast of,' e.^. Jer 9^'- ; and ' to glorify 'or 'be glorified ' to various verbal forms of the roots 133 and iks.