Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxii Pg 5
Luke ix. 35.
—Him, that is, not Moses or Elias any longer. The voice alone, therefore, was enough, without the display of Moses and Elias; for, by expressly mentioning whom they were to hear, he must have forbidden all4322 4322 Quoscunque.
others from being heard. Or else, did he mean that Isaiah and Jeremiah and the others whom he did not exhibit were to be heard, since he prohibited those whom he did display? Now, even if their presence was necessary, they surely should not be represented as conversing together, which is a sign of familiarity; nor as associated in glory with him, for this indicates respect and graciousness; but they should be shown in some slough4323 4323 In sordibus aliquibus.
as a sure token of their ruin, or even in that darkness of the Creator which Christ was sent to disperse, far removed from the glory of Him who was about to sever their words and writings from His gospel. This, then, is the way4324 4324 Sic.
how he demonstrates them to be aliens,4325 4325 To belong to another god.
even by keeping them in his own company! This is how he shows they ought to be relinquished: he associates them with himself instead! This is how he destroys them: he irradiates them with his glory! How would their own Christ act? I suppose He would have imitated the frowardness (of heresy),4326 4326 Secundum perversitatem.
and revealed them just as Marcion’s Christ was bound to do, or at least as having with Him any others rather than His own prophets! But what could so well befit the Creator’s Christ, as to manifest Him in the company of His own foreannouncers?4327 4327 Prædicatores.
—to let Him be seen with those to whom He had appeared in revelations?—to let Him be speaking with those who had spoken of Him?—to share His glory with those by whom He used to be called the Lord of glory; even with those chief servants of His, one of whom was once the moulder4328 4328 Informator, Moses, as having organized the nation.
of His people, the other afterwards the reformer4329 4329 Reformator, Elias, the great prophet.
thereof; one the initiator of the Old Testament, the other the consummator4330 4330 It was a primitive opinion in the Church that Elijah was to come, with Enoch, at the end of the world. See De Anima, chap. xxxv. and l.; also Irenæus, De Hæres. v. 5. [Vol. I. 530.]
of the New? Well therefore does Peter, when recognizing the companions of his Christ in their indissoluble connection with Him, suggest an expedient: “It is good for us to be here” (good: that evidently means to be where Moses and Elias are); “and let us make three tabernacles, one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. But he knew not what he said.”4331 4331
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiv Pg 52
There seems to be here an allusion to Luke ix. 35.
This is true enough. For the apostles had by that time sufficiently heard Moses and the prophets, for they had followed Christ, being persuaded by Moses and the prophets. For even Peter would not have been able4853 4853 Nec accepisset.
to say, “Thou art the Christ,”4854 4854
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 9
VERSE (35) - Lu 3:22 Mt 3:17 Joh 3:16,35,36 2Pe 1:17,18
