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43. Relation of Moses and Elijah to Jesus. The
Injunction of Silence.
But after these things it is written that, when they
heard the voice from the cloud bearing testimony to the Son, the three
Apostles, not being able to bear the glory of the voice and power
resting upon it, “fell on their face,”5816 and besought God; for they were sore afraid
at the supernatural sight, and the things which were spoken from the
sight. But consider if you can also say this with reference to
the details in the passage, that the disciples, having understood that
the Son of God had been holding conference with Moses, and that it was
He who said, “A man shall not see My face and
live,”5817 and taking further
the testimony of God about Him, as not being able to endure the
radiance of the Word, humbled themselves under the mighty hand of
God;5818 but, after the touch of the Word, lifting up
their eyes they saw Jesus only and no other.5819 Moses, the law, and Elijah, the
prophet, became one only with the Gospel of Jesus; and not, as they
were formerly three, did they so abide, but the three became one.
But consider these things with me in relation to mystical matters; for
in regard to the bare meaning of the letter, Moses and Elijah, having
appeared in glory and talked with Jesus, went away to the place from
which they had come, perhaps to communicate the words which Jesus spake
with them, to those who were to be benefited by Him, almost
immediately, namely, at the time of the passion, when many bodies of
the saints that had fallen asleep, their tombs being opened, were to go
to the city which is truly holy—not the Jerusalem which Jesus
wept over—and there appear unto many.5820 But after the dispensation in the
mountain, when the disciples were coming down from the mountain in
order that, when they had come to the multitude, they might serve the
Son of God concerning the salvation of the people, Jesus commanded the
disciples saying, “Tell the vision to no man until the Son of man
rise from the dead.”5821 But that
saying, “Tell the vision to no man,” is like that which was
investigated in the passage above, when “He enjoined the
disciples to tell no man that He was the Christ.”5822 Wherefore the things that were said at
that passage may be useful to us also for the passage before us; since
Jesus wishes also, in accordance with these, that the things of His
glory should not be spoken of, before His glory after the passion; for
those who heard, and in particular the multitudes, would have been
injured when they saw Him crucified, who had been so glorified.
Wherefore since His being glorified in the resurrection was akin to His
transfiguration, and to the vision of His face as the sun, on this
account He wishes that these things should then be spoken of by the
Apostles, when He rose from the dead.
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