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e Ch, xxvi. 39. Lk. v. 13; XVii. 16 (same const.).
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g Ch. xxviii. 5, ΤΟ.
h Ch. viii. i.
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latter in margin.
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cloud, still a cloud capable of casting a shadow, though a faint one (“non admodum atram,” Fritzsche). Some, thinking a shadow incompatible with the light, render ἐπεσκίασεν tegebat, cir- cumdabat. lLoesner cites passages from Philo in support of this meaning.— αὐτούς. Whom? the disciples? Jesus, Moses, and Elias? all the six? or the two celestial visitants alone? All these views have been held. The second the more probable, but impossible to be certain.—kat ἱδού, again introducing a main feature: first the visitants, now the voice from heaven. Relation of the ear to the voice the same as that of the eye to the visitants.—otros: the voice spoken this time about Jesus; at the baptism to Him (Mk. i. 11), meant for the ear of the three disciples. The voice to be taken in connection with the announcement of the coming passion. Jesus God’s well-beloved as self-sacrific- ing.—akovere αὐτοῦ: to be taken in the same connection = hear Him when He speaks to you of the cross. Hunc audite, nempe solum, plena fide, perfectissimo obsequio, universi apostoli et pastores praesertim, Elsner.—Ver. 6. καὶ ἀκού- σαντες, etc.: divine voices terrify poor mortals, especially when they echo and reinforce deep moving thoughts within. —Ver. 7. ἀψάμενος . . . εἶπεν: atouch and a word, human and kindly, from Jesus, restore strength and composure.— Ver. 8. And so ends the vision.— ἐπάραντες τ. 6., etc., raising their eyes they see no one but Jesus. Moses and Elias gone, and Jesus in His familiar aspect; the dazzling brightness about face and garments vanished.
Vv. 9-13. Conversation while de- scending the hill.—Ver. 9. μηδενὶ εἴπητε: injunction of secrecy. The reason of the injunction lies in the nature of the ex- perience. Visions are for those who are prepared for them. It boots not to re- late them to those who are not fit to receive them. Even the three were only partially fit; witness their terror (νετ. ϐ).---τὸ ὅραμα, the vision, justifying the view above given of the experience, held, among others, by Elsner, Herder, Bleek and Weiss. Herder has some fine remarks on the analogy between the experiences of Jesus at His baptism and on the Mount, six days after the announcement at Caesarea Philippi, and those of other men at the time of moral decisions in youth and in the near pre- sence of death (vide his Vom Erléser der Menschen, §§ 18, 19).—€ws οὗ, followed by subjunctive without ἄν: in this case (cf. xvi. 28) one of future contingency at a past time. The optative is used in classics (vide Burton, § 324). Not ΙΙ the resurrection. It is not implied that Jesus was very desirous that they should then begin to speak, but only that they could then speak of the vision intelli- gently and intelligibly. Christ’s tone seems to have been that of one making light os the recent experience (as in Lk. x. 20).—Ver. ΙΟ. τί οὖν, etc.: does the οὖν refer to the prohibition in ver. 9 (Meyer), or to the appearance of Moses and Elias, still in the minds of the three disciples, and the lateness of their coming (Euthy., Weiss), or to the shortness of their stay ? (Grotius, Fritzsche, Olsh., Bleek, etc.). Difficult to decide, owing to fragmentariness of report; but it is