To encounter this holy place where the Glory of the Lord dwells is to be undone, made anew. In the temple, filled with smoke and with glory, the priest and the prophet Isaiah can only cry out in awe: “Woe is me!” It is not first the creature’s undoing and then the Holy Presence, but first the Holiness and then the terror of sin exposed and owned, seared, and burned away. Just so the Deity of the One Lord, Jesus Christ, fills the disciples with awe as the roaring waves fall into stillness, and Peter,
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