INTRO TO
THE DAZED DISCIPLES
Having considered the transfiguration of Jesus, and the presence and passing of Moses and Elijah, it now remains to turn the attention to the DISCIPLES, and this subject is of utmost interest. The principal purpose of the transfiguration is declared in the statement, "He was transfigured before THEM." (Matt. 17:2)
The experience of the holy mount had its place in the process
of the work of the Master, in that it was the fitting consummation of a life
innocent in Childhood, and holy through all the testing of growth into Manhood.
Born without sin, triumphing over every attack made upon Him by the powers of
evil, He at last passed not by the way of death, but by that of transfiguration
into communion with the spirits of just men made perfect, into the very
presence of God.
Moreover the presence and passing
of Moses and Elijah, representing as they did the great movements of the past,
have been seen to be full of suggestiveness.
The
aspect of the transfiguration, however, which is of highest value, is that the
disciples were taken to the mount, were permitted to behold His glory, to
listen to His converse with Moses and Elijah, themselves to speak in the light
of the glory, and to hear the answer of God to that speech.
The consideration in the next
articles proceeds along three lines; first, A CONTEMPLATION OF THE MEN;
secondly, A CONSIDERATION OF THEIR SPEECH; and thirdly, ATTENTION TO THE ANSWER
OF HEAVEN TO THE SUGGESTION OF PETER.
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