sage. O what shame ! To be regarded as an object of shame in the presence of God the Father, of Christ, and of angels !
1. 'E» dwdfMi, ic ith power) Rom. i. 4; 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
2. K«r Idiav, apart) 111 antithesis to the people [viii. 34]. — ;, alone) In antithesis to the nine remaining disciples.
3. X/WK, snoiv) The production of nature. — Xsux.ai/a/, make white) the effect of art.
4. 2ui<, with} The appearance of Moses had been less antici pated by the disciples than that of Elias, ver. 11.
5. K«/ <7roir,6uiLs-v, and let us make) So also, and let us make, Luke ix. 33. K«/, and so therefore, represents the alacrity of mind on the part of Peter : or else the particle is that of the Evangelists, who join together two short speeches of Peter ; comp. *«/, ch. iii. 22 ; Luke vii. 16, or even Matt. viii. 13; John xiii. 13.
6. T/ AaXJjffa/) So the LXX., yivuiff'/iovrsg ri voirtffai 'itfpa^X, 1 Chron. xii. 32, where also some have made a subjunctive ,of the optative. — ?xpo/3o/) stricken with fear, and that a mild kind of fear ; for otherwise Peter would not have wished to remain there.
[7. Auro-j axo-jsrs) Hear ye Him : viz. Jesus. For Moses and Elias had by this time disappeared. — V. g.]
8. 'E^acr/va) This is an adverb often found in the LXX. — ^ iavruv, with themselves) because He was still about to suffer.
10. ' Expdrriffav, they laid hold of) They received with atten tion, and did not treat, with neglect. — ri sari, what is) They did not so much feel difficulty respecting the thesis [the position or conclusion], as they did respecting the hypothesis [the founda tion or assumption on which the conclusion was made to rest]. \_In fact, to those ivho had no idea that Christ must die, any dis course concerning His resurrection seemed out of place. — V. g.]
11. ' OTI Xsyovffiv, they say) Ail interrogation by implication.1 [vpurov, first) before that the great and terrible day of the Lord shall come, Mai. iv. 5. The disciples appear to have supposed,
1 "On, for ri on, is often found in LXX. See Mark ii. 16 — Eu. and TUAXSL.