transfiguration (ch. xvii. 1—5), and openly spoke of Himself among them as the Christ ; see Mark ix. 41, and John xvii. 3. 21. 'ATO TOTS, at that time and thenceforward — fy^aro, x.r.X., began, etc.) It is clear, therefore, that He had not shown it them before.1 The Gospel may be divided into two parts, from which the Divine plan of Jesus shines forth. The first pro position is, Jesus is the Christ; the second, Christ must suffer, die, and rise again (cf. John xvi. 30, 31, 32), or more briefly, Christ by death will enter into glory. Jesus first convinced His disciples of the first proposition (de subjecto) :2 in consequence of which they were bound to believe Him concerning the second (de praedicato), even before His passion. After His ascension, the people first learnt the second proposition (preedicatum), and thence were convinced of the first (de subjecto) ; see Acts xvii. 3. As soon as Jesus had persuaded His disciples of the first proposition (ver, 16), He added the second.3 Afterwards He led them to the mountain of Transfiguration.4 The order of the evangelic harmony is of great importance with regard to the observing of these things. Men frequently teach all things at once : Divine wisdom acts far otherwise. — deixvvuv, to show), i.e. openly. — on fa? Avrbv avs/.diTv, that He must go) and at the same time relinquish that mode of living to which the disciples had become habituated. — -radsTv, to suffer) When aught of glory accrued to Jesus, as in this instance by the confession of Peter, then He was especially wont to make mention of His approaching passion. This first announcement mentions His passion and death generally ; the second, in ch. xvii. 22, 23,
1 Except in covert [enigmatical] words. — V. g.
* " De subjecto," " de prsedicato," lit. "of the subject," " of the prsedi- cate." I have ventured to render the passage in language more generally intelligible.— (I. B.)
3 Viz., In ver. 21, etc., as to His suffering, death, and resurrection. — ED.
4 Where the same voice sounded from heaven, as before His baptism, " This is my Beloved Son ;" there being added the Epiphonema, or appended exhortation, " Hear Him." To wit, He was to be heard, or given heed to, especially in regard to those things which had constituted the main subject of the conversation very recently held on the mountain (between the Lord and Moses and Elias, Luke ix. 31), concerning his approaching " decease at Jerusalem " — concerning His Passion, I say, His Death and His Resurrection. — Harm., p. 370.