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Mat_17:2. Μετεμορφ .] was transfigured, in the way about to be described. That is to say, His external aspect was changed (“non substantialis, sed accidentalis fuit transformatio,” Calovius); His face gleaming like the sun, and His raiment being so white that it shone like light. He appeared in outward heavenly δόξα , which μεγαλειότης (2Pe_1:16) was the foreshadowing of His future glorified state (Joh_12:16; Joh_12:23; Joh_17:5; Joh_21:24; 2Co_3:18; Mat_13:43). The analogy presented by Exo_34:29 comes short in this respect, that, whereas the brightness on the face of Moses was the result of God’s having appeared before him, in the case of Christ it proceeded from His own divine nature and life, the δόξα of which radiated from within.
ὡς τὸ φῶς ] The aspect of it, therefore, was luminous, radiant.