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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
Not as though His body changed its human form, but a certain glistening glory overspread it.
Theophylact of Ohrid
Or, He takes these with Him as men who were able to conceal this thing, and reveal it to no one else. But going up into a mountain to pray, He teaches us to pray solitary, and going up, into stooping to earthly things.
John Damascene
Matthew and Mark indeed say that the transfiguration took place on the sixth day after the promise made to the disciples, but Luke on the eighth. But there is no disagreement in these testimonies, but they who make the number six, taking off a day at each end, that is, the first and the last, the day on which He makes the promise, and that on which He fulfilled it, have reckoned only the intervening ones, but He who makes the number eight, has counted in each of the two days above mentioned. …
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
Or, Peter went up, who received the keys of the kingdom of heaven; John, to whom was committed our Lord's mother; James, who first suffered martyrdom. (Acts 12:1.) Now in a mystical manner, after the words above said, is exhibited the transfiguration of Christ, since he who hears the words of Christ, and believes, shall see the glory of His resurrection. For, on the eighth day the resurrection took place. …
Bede
And he went up into the mountain to pray. He indeed went up into the mountain to pray, and thus to be transfigured, to show that those who expect the fruit of the resurrection, who desire to see the king in his beauty, ought to dwell in mind in the heights and devote themselves to continuous prayers. He takes only three disciples with him, because many are called, but few are chosen (Matthew XX). …
Bonaventure
Now it came to pass after these words. After the exhortation to the harshness of the way, the Evangelist subjoins the showing of the sweetness of glory. He proceeds in this order. For first he describes the revelation of the promised glory; second, the consideration of the revealed glory, at the passage: But Peter, and those who were with him; third, the confirmation of the revelation shown, at the passage: Now it came to pass on the following day, and this indeed he does through the admirable healing of the demoniac. …
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