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Mat_17:1. Comp. Mar_9:2 ff.; Luk_8:28 ff.; 2Pe_1:16 ff. Μεθʼ ἡμέρας ἕξ ] Luk_9:28 : ὡσεὶ ἡμέραι ὀκτώ . This ὡσεί makes it unnecessary to have recourse to any expedient for reconciling the numbers. Chrysostom, Jerome, Theophylact, Erasmus, and many others, are of opinion that Luke has included the dies a quo and ad quem.
εἰς ὅρος ὑψηλόν ] Since the fourth century there has been a tradition that the mountain here referred to was mount Tabor, the situation of which, however, was such as altogether to preclude this view. If we are to understand that Jesus remained during the six days in the neighbourhood of Caesarea Philippi, we may, with some probability, suppose that the height in question was one of the peaks of Hermon, a clump of hills standing to the north-east of that town.
Those three disciples were the most intimate friends of Jesus. Comp. Mat_26:37. For ἀναφέρει , comp. Luk_24:51; 2Ma_6:10; Polyb. viii. 31. 1.
κατʼ ἰδίαν ] so that they alone accompanied him to this mountain solitude.