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Luk 9:31. Ἐν δόξῃ, in glory) They were like their Lord in this scene [and seem to have obtained a greater degree of glory after the death and glorification of Christ. These two personages are a sample of the coming resurrection and transfiguration.-V. g.]-ἔξοδον, His departure [decease]) out of the world. Comp. Heb 13:12-13. The same word occurs, 2Pe 1:15.[82] The subject was a great one: the term describing it a very weighty one, wherein are contained the Passion, Cross, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ. The antithetic word is ΕἼΣΟΔΟς, His entrance into the world, Act 13:24.
[82] Appropriately it was used by one who had himself been an eye-witness of the transfiguration, and who was divinely taught the connection of the ἔξοδος with the δόξα, 1Pe 1:11.-ED. and TRANSL.