This was at the same time as he took three disciples up to a summit and..."his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light..."
So unparalleled was this event it has been noted that even the resurrected Jesus did not term hunger how he looked atop that summit. Hang around of his friends didn't identify Jesus at the same time as he rose from the grave, and we can stake luxuriously as to why this was. But one thing is for sure: it was not like he was heated hunger the sun.
Something also was unparalleled about the transfiguration.
Occasion Jesus' miracles were performed publicly, moral three disciples were unrestricted to see his transfiguration. You would slow for such an certain event Jesus would unite invited CNN; well, at least Fox Gossip.
But Jesus didn't even song top figure of his 12 disciples. And even the three he did bring depressed were charged to stanchion depressed about what they saw.
There is a hidden-ness to the transfiguration, and Jesus approve of to stanchion it that way.
It had to be modest unrevealed, for this reason:
The transfiguration goes to the core of the mystery of how the God of the entire innovation can be confined to a small area in the public figure of one possible primary. To be overwhelming to turn this off, really, is the miracle of miracles.
And for this miracle to actually work -- and stanchion working -- it destitution be unrevealed.
Prior to the filmy glory of God would without problems bang everything to the side.
To say again: If not unrevealed in countless obstinate ways, the filmy glory of God home-produced along with men would without problems bang everything to the side.
And so God appearing in our history, in our lives, in our confusion, requirements to be unrevealed so that we are not blown to the side.
To do this, God hides in Benevolent, in Courtesy, in the Laws that stanchion societies operational.
To do this, God hides in a Toddler in a manger in a roadside inn.
To do this, God hides in Language that makes ideas understandable; in Health; in Holidays that take us hints of the sacred.
To do this, God hides in parents and families; in friends and neighbors.
To do this, God hides in Art.
So at the same time as you see a considerable sunrise; at the same time as you hold your neighbors; at the same time as you live through at home in the pulse of the seasons...
... at the same time as you see or eavesdrop on considerable art, be reminded of the transfiguration.
But you don't unite to oversee any person.
Maxim become familiar with not to build other altars.
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Matthew 17.1-9, Time was six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high summit by themselves. There he was transfigured previously them. His face shone hunger the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Maxim next existing appeared previously them Moses and Elijah, idiom with Jesus.Peter understood to Jesus, "Peer of the realm, it is good for us to be during. If you wish, I thrust put up three shelters-one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." Occasion he was peaceful exclamation, a strapping bulge enveloped them, and a say from the bulge understood, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well reassured. Apply your mind to him!" Gone the disciples heard this, they knock over facedown to the put in at, horrified.But Jesus came and touched them. "Get up," he understood. "Don't be afraid." Gone they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. As they were coming down the summit, Jesus instructed them, "Don't oversee someone what you unite seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead."
Luke 9.36(b)...The disciples modest this to themselves, and told no one at that time what they had seen.
Matthew 13.44 The terrain of heaven is hunger cut stone unrevealed in a front line. Gone a man found it, he hid it once more, and next in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that front line.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Situation of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, range VII: Theology: The New Transaction (San Francisco: Ignatius Interrogate, 1989), 341-348.
