2And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
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Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We have here thee story o Christ’s transfiguration; he ha said that the Son of man should shortly come in his kingdom , with which promise all the three evangelists industriously connect this story; as if Christ’s transfiguration were intended for a specimen and an earnest of the kingdom of Christ, and of that light and love of his, which therein appears to his select and sanctified ones. Peter sp…
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