repeated. — <pw vrjg InyQzusrig, when a voice was borne) This is emphati- cally repeated in the next verse. — a vra) to Him alone. — r^g /av/uXo- vpinovc dogqgj the magnificent Glory ) So God Himself is termed.
18. 'H/xg/g, we) John also was still alive. — eg ovpuvov, from heaven) from God. — rw a y/w, the holy) The mountain was holy from that very circumstance ; at any rate, at that very time.
19. "E^o/xgv /3g/3a/orgpov, we have a more firm) He does not say, more clear, but more firm. Wherefore it is here unnecessary to inquire [or discuss ] concerning the difference in the clearness of prophecy before and after its fulfilment. But, undoubtedly, the word of prophecy becomes more firm from its fulfilment : Rom. xv. 8. For the same reason the word spoken by prophets is not more firm than that s*poken by apostles, either in itself or in rela- tion to those to whom Peter writes : ver. 12, 16.1 Even the word of prophecy w’as always firm of itself ; but it became more firm , I will not say in the minds of the apostles, but at all events in the minds of their hearers (in whose name he says, we , not ye have), to whom the apostles were demonstrating the complete fulfilment which had already taken place in Jesus Christ, and were, more- over, drawing inferences from this as to its future fulfilment. The day when it dawns upon you, confirms the fact that you saw cor- rectly, however indistinctly, the objects which you had already seen more faintly by the light of a lamp. See note on ver. 20, does not become. — rov *po<pririxbv Xoyov, the word of prophecy) The words of Moses, of Isaiah, and of all the prophets, make up one word, in every way consistent with itself. For Peter does not nowT bring forward individual sayings, but he embraces their whole testimony, as now laid open. Comp. Acts x. 43. Moses, too, had been with them on the mount. — xaXug, well) Peter does not upbraid them for their dulness, in still attaching greater credit to the prophets than to himself and the rest of the apostles. Every one ought to praise that which is the support of his own faith, on which he especially rests. He calls them, however, to further objects. — Kpoff'eyovrig ug , taking heed as) The light of the day does not take away the beholding and looking upon the lamp , but yet it overpowers it. By the greater light, the lesser one is both ac-
1 Nor is even the word of the prophets preferred either to the seeing or to the hearing of the apostles. The “day,” in fact, is what prevails in the New Testa- ment : and a choice beam of the day itself was the seeing and hearing on the holy mountain : so far is it from being the case, that the palm must be given to the “ lamp.” — V. g.