εγενετο 1096 5633 V-2ADI-3S δε 1161 CONJ μετα 3326 PREP τους 3588 T-APM λογους 3056 N-APM τουτους 5128 D-APM ωσει 5616 ADV ημεραι 2250 N-NPF οκτω 3638 A-NUI και 2532 CONJ παραλαβων 3880 5631 V-2AAP-NSM τον 3588 T-ASM πετρον 4074 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ ιωαννην 2491 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ ιακωβον 2385 N-ASM ανεβη 305 5627 V-2AAI-3S εις 1519 PREP το 3588 T-ASN ορος 3735 N-ASN προσευξασθαι 4336 5664 V-ADN
Vincent's NT Word Studies
28. A mountain. Rev., the mountain. The tradition that this mountain was Tabor is generally abandoned, and Mount Hermon is commonly supposed to have been the scene of the transfiguration. "Hermon, which is indeed the center of all the Promised Land, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt; the mount of fruitfulness, from which the springs of Jordan descended to the valleys of Israel. Along its mighty forest-avenues, until the grass grew fair with the mountain lilies, his feet dashed in the dew of Hermon, he must have gone to pray his first recorded prayer about death, and from the steep of it, before he knelt, could see to the south all the dwelling-place of the people that had sat in darkness, and seen the great light - the land of Zabulon and of Naphtali, Galilee of the nations; could see, even with his human sight, the gleam of that lake by Capernaum and Chorazin, and many a place loved by him and vainly ministered to, whose house was now left unto them desolate; and, chief of all, far in the utmost blue, the hills above Nazareth, sloping down to his old home: hills on which the stones yet lay loose that had been taken up to cast at him, when he left them forever" (Ruskin, "Modern Painters," iv. 374).To pray. Peculiar to Luke.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
9:28 {About eight days} (hwsei hemerai oktw). A _nominativus pendens_ without connection or construction. #Mr 9:2 (#Mt 17:1) has "after six days" which agrees with the general statement. {Into the mountain} (eis to oros). Probably Mount Hermon because we know that Jesus was near Caesarea Philippi when Peter made the confession (#Mr 8:27; Mt 16:13). Hermon is still the glory of Palestine from whose heights one can view the whole of the land. It was a fit place for the Transfiguration. {To pray} (proseuxasqai). Peculiar to Luke who so often mentions Christ's habit of prayer (cf. #3:21). See also verse #29 "as he was praying" (en twi proseucesqai, one of Luke's favorite idioms). {His countenance was altered} (egeneto to eidos tou proswpou autou heteron). Literally, "the appearance of his face became different." #Mt 17:2 says that "his face did shine as the sun." Luke does not use the word "transfigured" (metemorfwqe) in #Mr 9:2; Mt 17:2. He may have avoided this word because of the pagan associations with this word as Ovid's metamorfoses. {And his raiment became white and dazzling} (kai ho himatismos autou leukos exastraptwn). Literally, {And his raiment white radiant}. There is no _and_ between "white" and "dazzling." The participle exastraptwn is from the compound verb meaning to flash (astraptw) out or forth (ex). The simple verb is common for lightning flashes and bolts, but the compound in the LXX and here alone in the N.T. See #Mr 9:3 "exceeding white" and #Mt 17:2 "white as the light."
