Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxii Pg 25
Compare Deut. xix. 15 with Luke ix. 28.
He withdraws to a mountain. In the nature of the place I see much meaning. For the Creator had originally formed His ancient people on a mountain both with visible glory and His voice. It was only right that the New Testament should be attested4342 4342 Consignari.
on such an elevated spot4343 4343 In eo suggestu.
as that whereon the Old Testament had been composed;4344 4344 Conscriptum fuerat.
under a like covering of cloud also, which nobody will doubt, was condensed out of the Creator’s air. Unless, indeed, he4345 4345 Marcion’s god.
had brought down his own clouds thither, because he had himself forced his way through the Creator’s heaven;4346 4346 Compare above, book i. chap. 15, and book iv. chap. 7.
or else it was only a precarious cloud,4347 4347 Precario. This word is used in book v. chap. xii. to describe the transitoriness of the Creator’s paradise and world.
as it were, of the Creator which he used. On the present (as also on the former)4348 4348 Nec nunc.
occasion, therefore, the cloud was not silent; but there was the accustomed voice from heaven, and the Father’s testimony to the Son; precisely as in the first Psalm He had said, “Thou art my Son, today have I begotten thee.”4349 4349
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxii Pg 3
Luke ix. 28–36.
whom he had come to destroy. This, to be sure,4320 4320 Scilicet, in ironical allusion to a Marcionite opinion.
was what he wished to be understood as the meaning of that voice from heaven: “This is my beloved Son, hear Him”4321 4321
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes ix.i Pg 1.3
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 9
VERSE (28) - Mt 17:1 *etc:
