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Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord is unavailable, but you can change that!

The episode of the Transfiguration of Jesus plays a key role in the narrative of the Synoptic Gospels. Peter and his fellow Apostles have just acknowledged Jesus to be Israel’s long-awaited Messiah, and have been shocked by Jesus’ immediate prediction of his coming passion and death. Now Peter, James and John are allowed to share an extraordinary vision, marking him out as truly God’s own Son,...

of the Evangelists, John, states clearly in the Book of Revelation, that that city that will come and will remain “has no need of the light of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.”26 But did he [= God] not show us clearly Jesus in this passage too, divinely transfigured now on Thabor, possessing his body as a lamp, and instead of light the glory of his divinity shining forth on those who have climbed the mountain with him? But concerning
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